Ephesians 2

¹and you, being dead in your offences and sins —

²in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience:

³among whom we also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:

⁴but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love wherewith he loved us,

⁵(we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the Christ, (ye are saved by grace,)

⁶and has raised [us] up together, and has made [us] sit down together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,

⁷that he might display in the coming ages the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.

⁸For ye are saved by grace, through faith; and this not of yourselves; it is God's gift:

⁹not on the principle of works, that no one might boast.

¹⁰For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has before prepared that we should walk in them.

¹¹Wherefore remember that ye, once nations in [the] flesh, who [are] called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in [the] flesh done with the hand;

¹²that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: