Ephesians 2:8-13

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

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

10For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them.

11Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh – who are called “uncircumcision” by the so-called “circumcision” that is performed on the body by human hands –

12that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

13But now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.