8. For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift —
9. not from works, so that no one can boast.
10. For we are His creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them.
11. So then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh — called “the uncircumcised” by those called “the circumcised,” which is done in the flesh by human hands.
12. At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
13. But now in Christ Jesus, you who were far away have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.