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1 And you people were dead by your trespasses and sins 2 in which you formerly walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler, the authority of the air, the spirit which now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 and in which we all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will and the mind of the flesh, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest.
4 But God, being wealthy in compassion, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with the Messiah (it is by grace that you folks have been saved) 6 and he raised us up with him and sat us down together with him in the heavenlies in Messiah Jesus 7 in order that he might demonstrate in the ages to come the surpassing wealth of his grace in goodness to us in Messiah Jesus.
8 For by grace you people have been saved, through faith, and this does not come from you, it is the gift of God, 9 not from things you could do, in order that nobody may boast. 10 For we are his work of art, created in Messiah Jesus for good deeds which God prepared beforehand in order that we should walk in these very things.
Ephesians 2:1-10 Tim’s Translation