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6 And he raised us up with Christ and gave us a seat with him in the heavens. He did this for those in Christ Jesus
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And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
7 so that for all future time he could show the very great riches of his grace by being kind to 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 I mean that you have been saved by grace through believing. You did not save yourselves; it was a gift from God.
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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 It was not the result of your own efforts, so you cannot brag about it.
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not by works, so that no one can boast.
10 God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us to do good works, which God planned in advance for us to live our lives doing.
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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 were not born Jewish. You are the people the Jews call "uncircumcised." Those who call you "uncircumcised" call themselves "circumcised." (Their circumcision is only something they themselves do on their bodies.)
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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 Remember that in the past you were without Christ. You were not citizens of Israel, and you had no part in the agreementsn with the promise that God made to his people. You had no hope, and you did not know 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 Christ Jesus, you who were far away from God are brought near through the blood of Christ's death.
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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 Christ himself is our peace. He made both Jewish people and those who are not Jews one people. They were separated as if there were a wall between them, but Christ broke down that wall of hate by giving his own body.
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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 The Jewish law had many commands and rules, but Christ ended that law. His purpose was to make the two groups of people become one new people in him and in this way make 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 It was also Christ's purpose to end the hatred between the two groups, to make them into one body, and to bring them back to God. Christ did all this with his death on the cross.
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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.
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