And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near,

And although you were ¹  dead ²  in your transgressions and sins,

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

even though we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you are saved! ¹  –

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you too were called to the one hope of your calling,

for you were at one time darkness, but now you are ¹  light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light –

if indeed you heard about him and were taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.

so that we, who were the first to set our hope ¹  on Christ, ²  would be to the praise of his glory.

You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside ¹  the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,

that you were at that time without the Messiah, ¹  alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, ²  having no hope and without God in the world.

among whom ¹  all of us ²  also ³  formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath ⁴  even as the rest… ⁵ 

And when ¹  you heard the word of truth (the gospel of your salvation) – when you believed in Christ ²  – you were marked with the seal ³  of the promised Holy Spirit, ⁴ 

In Christ ¹  we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, ²  since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will

But now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. ¹ 

Obey ¹  with enthusiasm, as though serving the Lord ²  and not people,

in which ¹  you formerly lived ²  according to this world’s present path, ³  according to the ruler of the kingdom ⁴  of the air, the ruler of ⁵  the spirit ⁶  that is now energizing ⁷  the sons of disobedience, ⁸ 

But you did not learn about Christ like this,

It was he ¹  who gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, ² 

Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh – who are called “uncircumcision” by the so-called “circumcision” that is performed on the body ¹  by human hands –

He did this by predestining ¹  us to adoption as his ²  sons ³  through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure ⁴  of his will –