1 You were made alive when you were
dead in transgressions and sins,

2 in which you once walked according
to the course of this world, according to
the prince of the power of the air, the
spirit who now works in the children of
disobedience.

3 We also all once lived among them in
the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of
the flesh and of the mind, and were by
nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

4 But God, being rich in mercy, for his
great love with which he loved us,

5 even when we were dead through our
trespasses, made us alive together with
Christ—by grace you have been saved—

6 and raised us up with him, and made
us to sit with him in the heavenly places in
Christ Jesus,

7 that in the ages to come he might show
the exceeding riches of his grace in
kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

8 for by grace you have been saved
through faith, and that not of yourselves;
it is the gift of God,

9 not of works, that no one would boast.

10 For we are his workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus for good works, which God
prepared before that we would walk in
them.

11 Therefore remember that once you,
the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called
“uncircumcision” by that which is called
“circumcision” (in the flesh, made by
hands),