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Ephesians 2:1-10

2 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, ^2\\xa0in 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\\xa0All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh\\xa0^m and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. ^4\\xa0But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, ^5\\xa0made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions\\u2014it is by grace you have been saved. ^6\\xa0And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, ^7\\xa0in 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\\xa0For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith\\u2014and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God\\u2014^9\\xa0not by works, so that no one can boast. ^10\\xa0For we are God\\u2019s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.\\xa0

\\xa0The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Eph 2:1\\u201310.

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