MODERN LITERAL VERSION

2:1 And you* were dead in trespasses and sins,
2:2 in which you* previously walked according to the {F} age of this world, according to the ruler of the authorities of the air, of the spirit who now is working in the sons of disobedience;
2:3 among whom we also all conducted ourselves previously in the lusts of our flesh, practicing the wills of the flesh and of the mind and we were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of his much love* with which he loved* us,
2:5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, he made* us alive together with Christ; you* have been saved by grace.
2:6 And God raised us up together with him and seated us together with him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus;
2:7 that* in the ages to come he might show the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
2:8 For* you* have been saved by the grace, through the faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;
2:9 not from works, that* no one should boast.
2:10 For* we are his product, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that* we should walk in them.

2:11 Hence remember, that previously you* were the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by what is called circumcision, made by hands in the flesh;
2:12 that you* were in that time separate from Christ, having been alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers from the covenants* of the promise, having no hope and godless in the world.
2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you* who were previously from afar have become near to him in the blood of Christ.
2:14 For* he is our peace, who made* us both one and tore-down the middle wall of the fence,
2:15 having done-away-with the enmity in his flesh, which is the Law of commandments in decrees; that* he might create in himself from the two one new man, thus making* peace;
2:16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the enmity in it.
2:17 And he came and proclaimed peace to you* who were from afar and peace to those who were near;
2:18 because through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
2:19 Then* consequently, you* are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you* are fellow citizens with the holy-ones and members of the household of God,
2:20 being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Jesus Christ himself is the cornerstone;
2:21 in whom all the building, fitly framed together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord;
2:22 in whom you* are also built together into a residence of God in the Spirit.
{Footnotes: Eph 2:2- i.e. current things of this world. Please read the Preface-Appendix II. * is our universal footnoting for words contained in the Appendix. These words are NOT the same Greek word as the non-asterisk form; i.e. *for is different from for* is different from for.}