¹You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

¹Tudi vas je oživil, ki ste bili mrtvi po prestopkih in grehih,

²in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

²v katerih ste nekdaj hodili po navadi tega sveta, po knezu oblasti v zraku, po duhu, ki deluje zdaj v sinovih nepokorščine;

³among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

³med katerimi smo tudi mi vsi nekdaj živeli v poželjivostih mesa svojega ter delali želje mesa in misli, in bili smo po naravi otroci jeze Božje, kakor tudi drugi.

⁴But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

⁴Bog pa, bogat v usmiljenju, zaradi velike ljubezni svoje, ki nas je ž njo ljubil,

⁵even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

⁵nas je, ko smo tudi bili mrtvi po grehih, oživil s Kristusom vred (po milosti ste rešeni)

⁶and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

⁶in ž njim vred obudil in posadil v nebesih v Kristusu Jezusu,

⁷that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

⁷da pokaže v prihodnjih vekih presilno bogastvo milosti svoje v dobrotljivosti do nas v Kristusu Jezusu.

⁸for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

⁸Kajti iz milosti ste rešeni po veri, in to ni iz vas, dar Božji je to;

⁹not of works, that no one would boast.

⁹ne iz del, da se nihče ne hvali.

¹⁰For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

¹⁰Njegovo namreč smo delo, ustvarjeni v Kristusu Jezusu za dobra dela, ki jih je Bog naprej pripravil, da živimo v njih.

¹¹Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision,” (in the flesh, made by hands);

¹¹Zatorej pomnite, da ste bili nekdaj vi, pogani v mesu, ki jih imenuje neobrezo tako imenovana obreza, ki pa je le na mesu, z roko storjena,

¹²that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

¹²da ste bili v tistem času brez Kristusa, izključeni od meščanstva Izraelovega in tujci zavezam obljube, ne imajoč upanja in brez Boga na svetu.

¹³But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

¹³Sedaj pa, v Kristusu Jezusu, ste vi, ki ste bili nekdaj daleč, postavljeni blizu po krvi Kristusovi.

¹⁴For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,

¹⁴Kajti on je mir naš, ki je naredil iz obojega eno in podrl ločilno pregrajo

¹⁵having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;

¹⁵s tem, da je v mesu svojem odpravil sovraštvo, postavo zapovedi, obseženo v poveljih, da bi ta dva v sebi ustvaril v enega novega človeka, storivši mir,

¹⁶and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.

¹⁶in oba v enem telesu z Bogom spravil po križu, umorivši sovraštvo na njem.

¹⁷He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.

¹⁷In je prišel in oznanjal mir vam, ki ste bili daleč, in mir njim, ki so bili blizu;

¹⁸For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

¹⁸ker po njem le imamo, oboji v enem Duhu, pristop k Očetu.

¹⁹So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

¹⁹Tako torej niste več tujci in priseljenci, marveč ste someščani svetih in domačini Božji,

²⁰being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

²⁰sezidani na temelju apostolov in prorokov, vogelni kamen pa je Jezus Kristus sam,

²¹in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

²¹v katerem je vse poslopje točno sestavljeno in raste v svet tempelj v Gospodu,v katerem se tudi vi z drugimi vred vzidavate v bivališče Božje v Duhu.

²²in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

²²v katerem se tudi vi z drugimi vred vzidavate v bivališče Božje v Duhu.