Ephesians 2:1-10

Twentieth_Century(i) 1 You yourselves were once dead because of your offenses and sins. 2 For at one time you lived in sin, following the ways of the world, in subjection to the Ruler of the Powers of the air--the Spirit who is still at work among the disobedient. 3 And it was among them that we all once lived our lives, indulging the cravings of our earthly nature, and carrying out the desires prompted by that earthly nature and by our own thoughts. Our very nature exposed us to the Divine Wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 Yet God, in his abundant compassion, and because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 Even though we were 'dead' because of our offenses, gave Life to us in giving Life to the Christ. (By God's loving-kindness you have been saved.) 6 And, through our union with Christ Jesus, God raised us with him, and caused us to sit with him on high, 7 In order that, by his goodness to us in Christ Jesus, he might display in the ages to come the boundless wealth of his loving- kindness. 8 For it is by God's loving-kindness that you have been saved, through your faith. It is not due to yourselves; the gift is God's. 9 It is not due to obedience to Law, lest any one should boast. 10 For we are God's handiwork, created, by our union with Christ Jesus, for the good actions in doing which God had pre-arranged that we should spend our lives.