5. even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Messiah – by favour you have been saved –
6. and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenlies in Messiah יהושע,
7. in order to show in the coming ages the exceeding riches of His favour in kindness toward us in Messiah יהושע.
8. For by favour you have been saved, through belief, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of Elohim,
9. it is not by works, so that no one should boast.
10. For we are His workmanship, created in Messiah יהושע unto good works, which Elohim prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
11. Therefore remember that you, once gentiles in the flesh, who are called ‘the uncircumcision’ by what is called ‘the circumcision’ made in the flesh by hands,
12. that at that time you were without Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Yisra’ĕl and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no expectation and without Elohim in the world.
13. But now in Messiah יהושע you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.
14. For He is our peace, who has made both one, and having broken down the partition of the barrier,