9. not of works, so that no one should boast.
10. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, so that we should walk in them.
11. Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called the “uncircumcision” by the so-called “circumcision” in the flesh by human hands,
12. were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world.
13. But now in Christ Jesus you who were formerly far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.