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God's grace to Gentiles

1YOU ONCE were dead because of your sins and wickedness;

2you followed the ways of this present world order, obeying the commander of the spiritual powers of the air, the spirit now at work among God's rebel subjects.

3We too were once of their number: we were ruled by our physical desires, and did what instinct and evil imagination suggested. In our natural condition we lay under the condemnation of God like the rest of mankind.

4But God is rich in mercy, and because of his great love for us,

5he brought us to life with Christ when we were dead because of our sins; it is by grace you are saved.

6And he raised us up in union with Christ Jesus and enthroned us with him in the heavenly realms,

7so that he might display in the ages to come how immense are the resources of his grace, and how great his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

8For it is by grace you are saved through faith; it is not your own doing. It is God's gift,

9not a reward for work done. There is nothing for anyone to boast of;

10we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the life of good deeds which God designed for us.

11Remember then your former condition, Gentiles as you are by birth, “the uncircumcised” as you are called by those who call themselves “the circumcised” because of a physical rite.

12You were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the community of Israel, strangers to God's covenants and the promise that goes with them. Yours was a world without hope and without God.

13Once you were far off, but now in union with Christ Jesus you have been brought near through the shedding of Christ's blood.

14For he is himself our peace. Gentiles and Jews, he has made the two one, and in his own body of flesh and blood has broken down the barrier of enmity which separated them;

15for he annulled the law with its rules and regulations, so as to create out of the two a single new humanity in himself, thereby making peace.

16This was his purpose, to reconcile the two in a single body to God through the cross, by which he killed the enmity.

17So he came and proclaimed the good news: peace to you who were far off, and peace to those who were near;

18for through him we both alike have access to the Father in the one Spirit.

19Thus you are no longer aliens in a foreign land, but fellow-citizens with God's people, members of God's household.

20You are built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the corner-stone.

21In him the whole building is bonded together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

22In him you also are being built with all the others into a spiritual dwelling for God.



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