7. that he might display in the coming ages the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.
8. For ye are saved by grace, through faith; and this not of yourselves; it is God's gift:
9. not on the principle of works, that no one might boast.
10. For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has before prepared that we should walk in them.
11. Wherefore remember that ye, once nations in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in the flesh done with the hand;
12. that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
13. but now in Christ Jesus ye who once were afar off are become nigh by the blood of the Christ.
14. For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of enclosure,
15. having annulled the enmity in his flesh, the law of commandments in ordinances, that he might form the two in himself into one new man, making peace;
16. and might reconcile both in one body to God by the cross, having by it slain the enmity;