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⁴ But God who is rich in his mercies, because of the great love with which he loved us,⁵ when we were dead in our sins, quickened us with the Messiah, and rescued us by his grace;⁶ and resuscitated us with him, and seated us with him in heaven, in Jesus the Messiah:⁷ that he might show to the coming ages the magnitude of the riches of his grace, and his benignity towards us in Jesus the Messiah.⁸ For it is by his grace we are rescued, through faith; and this is not of yourselves, but it is the gift of God:⁹ not of works, lest any one glory.¹⁰ For we are his creation; who are created in Jesus the Messiah, for good works, which God hath before prepared for us to walk in.

¹¹ Wherefore be mindful, that ye formerly were carnal Gentiles; and ye were called the uncircumcision, by that which is called the circumcision, and which is the work of the hands in the flesh.¹² And ye were, at that time, without the Messiah; and were aliens from the regulations of Israel; and strangers to the covenant of the promise; and were without hope, and without God, in the world.¹³ But now, by Jesus the Messiah, ye who before were afar off, have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.

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