2:1  
    [kjv]  And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
    [bbe]  And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,
2:2  
    [kjv]  Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
    [bbe]  In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;
2:3  
    [kjv]  Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
    [bbe]  Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.
2:4
    [kjv]  But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
    [bbe]  But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,
2:5
    [kjv]  Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
    [bbe]  Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),
2:6
    [kjv]  And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
    [bbe]  So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;
2:7  
    [kjv]  That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
    [bbe]  That in the time to come he might make clear the full wealth of his grace in his mercy to us in Christ Jesus:
2:8
    [kjv]  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
    [bbe]  Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:
2:9  
    [kjv]  Not of works, lest any man should boast.
    [bbe]  Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself.
2:10
    [kjv]  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
    [bbe]  For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.
2:11
    [kjv]  Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
    [bbe]  For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who ha............