FOR IT IS BY GRACE YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED

 

As for you, you were Dead in Transgressions and Sins,

2 In which you used to live

When you followed the ways of this World

And of the Ruler of the Kingdom of the Air,

The spirit who is now At Work in those who are Disobedient.

3 All of us also live among them at one time,

Gratifying the Cravings of our Flesh

And following its desires and thoughts.

Like the rest, we were deserving Wrath.

4 But because of His Great Love for us,

God, Who is Rich in Mercy,

Made us Alive with Christ

Even when we were Dead in Transgressions--

IT IS BY GRACE YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED.

6 And God raised us up with Christ

And seated us with Him in the Heavenly Realms

In Christ Jesus,

7 In order that in the Coming Ages

He might show the Incomparable Riches of His Grace,

Expressed in His Kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

8 FOR IT IS BY GRACE YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED,

THROUGH FAITH--

And this is not from yourselves,

IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD—9 NOT BY WORKS,

So that No One Can Boast.

10 For we are God’s Handiwork,

Created in Christ Jesus to do Good Works,

Which God prepare in advance for us to do.

(Ephesians 2: 1-10)