New American Standard Bible 2020

Ephesians 2:8-13

8For 1by grace you have been saved 2through faith; and 3this is not of yourselves, it is 4the gift of God; 9 5not a result of works, so that 6no one may boast. 10For we are His workmanship, 7created in 8Christ Jesus for 9good works, which God 10prepared beforehand so that we would 11walk in them.

11Therefore remember that 12previously 13you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “14Uncircumcision” by the so-called “15Circumcision” which is performed in the flesh by human hands-- 12remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, 16 17excluded from 18the people of Israel, and strangers to 19the covenants of the promise, having 20no hope and 21without God in the world. 13But now in 22Christ Jesus you who 23previously were 24far away 25have 26been brought near 27 28by the blood of Christ.

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Notes

1. Ephesians 2:8 Acts 15:11; Eph 2:5 ↩
2. Ephesians 2:8 1 Pet 1:5 ↩
3. Ephesians 2:8 I.e., this salvation ↩
4. Ephesians 2:8 John 4:10 ↩
5. Ephesians 2:9 Rom 3:28; 2 Tim 1:9 ↩
6. Ephesians 2:9 1 Cor 1:29 ↩
7. Ephesians 2:10 Eph 2:15; 4:24; Col 3:10 ↩
8. Ephesians 2:10 Eph 1:1; 2:6, 13 ↩
9. Ephesians 2:10 Titus 2:14 ↩
10. Ephesians 2:10 Eph 1:4 ↩
11. Ephesians 2:10 Eph 4:1 ↩
12. Ephesians 2:11 Eph 2:2 ↩
13. Ephesians 2:11 1 Cor 12:2; Eph 5:8 ↩
14. Ephesians 2:11 Rom 2:28f; Col 2:11 ↩
15. Ephesians 2:11 Rom 2:28f; Col 2:11 ↩
16. Ephesians 2:12 Or alienated ↩
17. Ephesians 2:12 Rom 9:4; Col 1:21 ↩
18. Ephesians 2:12 Or citizenship in Israel ↩
19. Ephesians 2:12 Gal 3:17; Heb 8:6 ↩
20. Ephesians 2:12 1 Thess 4:13 ↩
21. Ephesians 2:12 Gal 4:8; 1 Thess 4:5 ↩
22. Ephesians 2:13 Eph 1:1; 2:6 ↩
23. Ephesians 2:13 Eph 2:2 ↩
24. Ephesians 2:13 Is 57:19; Acts 2:39; Eph 2:17 ↩
25. Ephesians 2:13 Lit became; or were made ↩
26. Ephesians 2:13 Is 57:19; Acts 2:39; Eph 2:17 ↩
27. Ephesians 2:13 Or in ↩
28. Ephesians 2:13 Rom 3:25; Col 1:20 ↩

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