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8 For by grace you? are saved through faith, and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not by works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. 11 Therefore remember that once you?—the Gentiles in the flesh, the ones being called the uncircumcision by that being called the circumcision, done by hands in the flesh— 12 that at that time you? were apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, not having hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you?, the ones once being far off, became near by the blood of Christ. 14 For He Himself is our peace, having made both one and having broken down the middle wall of the partition, the hostility, 15 having annulled in His flesh the law of commandments in decrees, so that He might create in Himself the two into one new man, making peace, 16 and that He might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross, having put to death the hostility by it. 17 And having come, He preached good news: peace to you?, the ones far off, and peace to those near. 18 For through Him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then, you? are no longer strangers and aliens, but you? are fellow citizens of the saints and of the household of God, 20 having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom all the building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you? also are being built together into a habitation of God in the Spirit. Ephesians 2:8-22, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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