Ephesians 2:8-13

8For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift —

9not from works, so that no one can boast.

10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do.

11So, then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh — called “the uncircumcised” by those called “the circumcised,” which is done in the flesh by human hands.

12At that time you were without Christ, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world.

13But now in Christ Jesus, you who were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.