1. And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
2. in which you formerly walked according to the age of this world and according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,
3. among them we all also once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and we were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
4. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5. even when we were dead in sins, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6. and He raised us up and seated us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7. so that in the coming ages He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not of yourselves. It is the gift of God,
9. not of works, so that no one should boast.
10. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, so that we should walk in them.
11. Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called the “uncircumcision” by the so-called “circumcision” in the flesh by human hands,
12. were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world.