Chapter 2

Question 1

Ephesians 2:1

Answer 1

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

Question 2

Ephesians 2:2

Answer 2

in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.

Question 3

Ephesians 2:3

Answer 3

All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.

Question 4

Ephesians 2:4

Answer 4

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,

Question 5

Ephesians 2:5

Answer 5

made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions — it is by grace you have been saved.

Question 6

Ephesians 2:6

Answer 6

And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

Question 7

Ephesians 2:7

Answer 7

in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

Question 8

Ephesians 2:8

Answer 8

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God —

Question 9

Ephesians 2:9

Answer 9

not by works, so that no one can boast.

Question 10

Ephesians 2:10

Answer 10

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Question 11

Ephesians 2:11

Answer 11

Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (that done in the body by the hands of men) —

Question 12

Ephesians 2:12

Answer 12

remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

Question 13

Ephesians 2:13

Answer 13

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

Question 14

Ephesians 2:14

Answer 14

For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility,

Question 15

Ephesians 2:15

Answer 15

by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace,

Question 16

Ephesians 2:16

Answer 16

and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.

Question 17

Ephesians 2:17

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Ephesians 2:18

Answer 18

For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

Question 19

Ephesians 2:19

Answer 19

Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household,

Question 20

Ephesians 2:20

Answer 20

built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.

Question 21

Ephesians 2:21

Answer 21

In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord.

Question 22

Ephesians 2:22

Answer 22

And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.