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.
9. You are not saved by the things you have done, so there is nothing to boast about.
10. God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us new people so that we would spend our lives doing the good things he had already planned for us to do.
11. You were not born as Jews. You are the people the Jews call “uncircumcised.” Those Jews who call you “uncircumcised” call themselves “circumcised.” (Their circumcision is only something they themselves do to their bodies.)