4. But God is rich in mercy, and he loved us very much.
5. We were spiritually dead because of all we had done against him. But he gave us new life together with Christ. (You have been saved by God’s grace.)
6. Yes, it is because we are a part of Christ Jesus that God raised us from death and seated us together with him in the heavenly places.
7. God did this so that his kindness to us who belong to Christ Jesus would clearly show for all time to come the amazing richness of his grace.
8. I mean that you have been saved by grace because you believed. You did not save yourselves; it was a gift from God.