As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you

followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit

who is now at work in those who are disobedient.

All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and

following its desires and thoughts.

Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath, but because of his great love for

us, God who is rich and mercy made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions.

It is by grace you have been saved.

And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ's

Jesus, 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.

For is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it

is the gift of God, not by works so that no one can boast.

For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared

in advance for us to do.

This is the word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

Would you remain standing just for one more moment?

It won't be long.

So may we be good here as in better doers.

Maybe love Jesus deeply.

May we trust what Jesus says.

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