6. and did raise [us] up together, and did seat [us] together in the heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus,
7. that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus,
8. for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift,
9. not of works, that no one may boast;
10. for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.
11. Wherefore, remember, that ye [were] once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,
12. that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;
13. and now, in Christ Jesus, ye being once afar off became nigh in the blood of the Christ,