Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
6 In our union with Christ Jesus he raised us up with him to rule with him in the heavenly world.
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And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
7 He did this to demonstrate for all time to come the extraordinary greatness of his grace in the love he showed us in Christ Jesus.
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in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
8 For it is by God's grace that you have been saved through faith. It is not the result of your own efforts,
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For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—
9 but God's gift, so that no one can boast about it.
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not by works, so that no one can boast.
10 God has made us what we are, and in our union with Christ Jesus he has created us for a life of good deeds, which he has already prepared for us to do.
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For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
11 You Gentiles by birth - called "the uncircumcised" by the Jews, who call themselves the circumcised (which refers to what men do to their bodies) - remember what you were in the past.
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Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)—
12 At that time you were apart from Christ. You were foreigners and did not belong to God's chosen people. You had no part in the covenants, which were based on God's promises to his people, and you lived in this world without hope and without God.
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remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
13 But now, in union with Christ Jesus you, who used to be far away, have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
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But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
14 For Christ himself has brought us peace by making Jews and Gentiles one people. With his own body he broke down the wall that separated them and kept them enemies.
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For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility,
15 He abolished the Jewish Law with its commandments and rules, in order to create out of the two races one new people in union with himself, in this way making peace.
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by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace,
16 By his death on the cross Christ destroyed their enmity; by means of the cross he united both races into one body and brought them back to God.
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and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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