Ephesians 2

¹And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,

²In 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;

³Among 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.

⁴But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

⁵Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),

⁶So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;

⁷That in the time to come he might make clear the full wealth of his grace in his mercy to us in Christ Jesus:

⁸Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:

⁹Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself.

¹⁰For 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.

¹¹For 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 have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

¹²That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.