4. But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,
5. and we being dead in trespasses, he made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),
6. and raised us together and seated us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7. in order that he might show in the coming ages the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness upon us in Christ Jesus.
8. For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;
9. it is 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 beforehand, so that we may walk in them.
11. Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, the so-called uncircumcision by the so-called circumcision in the flesh, made by hands,
12. that you were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, not having hope, and without God in the world.
13. But now in Christ Jesus you, the ones who once were far away, have become near by the blood of Christ.
14. For he himself is our peace, who made both one and broke down the dividing wall of the partition, the enmity, in his flesh,
15. invalidating the law of commandments in ordinances, in order that he might create the two in himself into one new man, thus making peace,