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# Ephesians 2

Ephesians 2 is chapter 2 of 6 in the Letter to the Ephesians. Here are all 22 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> All our good comes through Christ. He is our peace.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Ephesians 2 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And you were once dead in your sins and offenses,
2. in which you walked in times past, according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of this sky, the spirit who now works in the sons of distrust.
3. And we too were all conversant in these things, in times past, by the desires of our flesh, acting according to the will of the flesh and according to our own thoughts. And so we were, by nature, sons of wrath, even like the others.
4. Yet still, God, who is rich in mercy, for the sake of his exceedingly great charity with which he loved us,
5. even when we were dead in our sins, has enlivened us together in Christ, by whose grace you have been saved.
6. And he has raised us up together, and he has caused us to sit down together in the heavens, in Christ Jesus,
7. so that he may display, in the ages soon to arrive, the abundant wealth of his grace, by his goodness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8. For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not of yourselves, for it is a gift of God.
9. And this is not of works, so that no one may glory.
10. For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works which God has prepared and in which we should walk.
11. Because of this, be mindful that, in times past, you were Gentiles in the flesh, and that you were called uncircumcised by those who are called circumcised in the flesh, something done by man,
12. and that you were, in that time, without Christ, being foreign to the way of life of Israel, being visitors to the testament, having no hope of the promise, and being without God in this world.
13. But now, in Christ Jesus, you, who were in times past far away, have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
14. For he is our peace. He made the two into one, by dissolving the intermediate wall of separation, of opposition, by his flesh,
15. emptying the law of commandments by decree, so that he might join these two, in himself, into one new man, making peace
16. and reconciling both to God, in one body, through the cross, destroying this opposition in himself.
17. And upon arriving, he evangelized peace to you who were far away, and peace to those who were near.
18. For by him, we both have access, in the one Spirit, to the Father.
19. Now, therefore, you are no longer visitors and new arrivals. Instead, you are citizens among the saints in the household of God,
20. having been built upon the foundation of the Apostles and of the Prophets, with Jesus Christ himself as the preeminent cornerstone.
21. In him, all that has been built is framed together, rising up into a holy temple in the Lord.
22. In him, you also have been built together into a habitation of God in the Spirit.

## Ephesians 2 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Et vos, cum essetis mortui delictis et peccatis vestris,
2. in quibus aliquando ambulastis secundum sæculum mundi hujus, secundum principem potestatis aëris hujus, spiritus, qui nunc operatur in filios diffidentiæ,
3. in quibus et nos omnes aliquando conversati sumus in desideriis carnis nostræ, facientes voluntatem carnis et cogitationum, et eramus natura filii iræ, sicut et ceteri:
4. Deus autem, qui dives est in misericordia, propter nimiam caritatem suam, qua dilexit nos,
5. et cum essemus mortui peccatis, convivificavit nos in Christo (cujus gratia estis salvati),
6. et conresuscitavit, et consedere fecit in cælestibus in Christo Jesu:
7. ut ostenderet in sæculis supervenientibus abundantes divitias gratiæ suæ, in bonitate super nos in Christo Jesu.
8. Gratia enim estis salvati per fidem, et hoc non ex vobis: Dei enim donum est:
9. non ex operibus, ut ne quis glorietur.
10. Ipsius enim sumus factura, creati in Christo Jesu in operibus bonis, quæ præparavit Deus ut in illis ambulemus.
11. Propter quod memores estote quod aliquando vos gentes in carne, qui dicimini præputium ab ea quæ dicitur circumcisio in carne, manu facta:
12. quia eratis illo in tempore sine Christo, alienati a conversatione Israël, et hospites testamentorum, promissionis spem non habentes, et sine Deo in hoc mundo.
13. Nunc autem in Christo Jesu, vos, qui aliquando eratis longe, facti estis prope in sanguine Christi.
14. Ipse enim est pax nostra, qui fecit utraque unum, et medium parietem maceriæ solvens, inimicitias in carne sua,
15. legem mandatorum decretis evacuans, ut duos condat in semetipso in unum novum hominem, faciens pacem:
16. et reconciliet ambos in uno corpore, Deo per crucem, interficiens inimicitias in semetipso.
17. Et veniens evangelizavit pacem vobis, qui longe fuistis, et pacem iis, qui prope.
18. Quoniam per ipsum habemus accessum ambo in uno Spiritu ad Patrem.
19. Ergo jam non estis hospites, et advenæ: sed estis cives sanctorum, et domestici Dei,
20. superædificati super fundamentum apostolorum, et prophetarum, ipso summo angulari lapide Christo Jesu:
21. in quo omnis ædificatio constructa crescit in templum sanctum in Domino,
22. in quo et vos coædificamini in habitaculum Dei in Spiritu.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 211: I Believe in God ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1073: The Celebration of the Christian Mystery ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 654: On the Third Day He Rose From the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1003: Christ's Resurrection and Ours ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2796: "Who Art in Heaven" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2305: Safeguarding Peace ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 51: God Reveals His "Plan of Loving Goodness" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 756: The Church in God's Plan ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 857: The Church Is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 797: The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1616: Marriage in God's Plan ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 9: “Not of works” … as of our own growth, or from ourselves; but as from the grace of God.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sun, Mar 7, 2027: Fourth Sunday of Lent — Second Reading, Ephesians 2:4-10
- Sat, Jul 3, 2027 (computed): St. Thomas, Apostle — First Reading, Ephesians 2:19-22
- Sun, Jul 18, 2027 (computed): Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time — Second Reading, Ephesians 2:13-18
- Thu, Oct 28, 2027 (computed): Sts. Simon and Jude, Apostles — First Reading, Ephesians 2:19-22

4 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).