For by grace you have been saved through faith

But God, who is rich in mercy because of His great love with which he loved us,
Even when we were dead in trespasses made us alive together with Christ (buy grace you have been saved).
And raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
That in the ages to come,
He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His loving kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
For by grace you have been saved through faith,
and that not of your selves, it is the gift of God,
Not of works, lest anyone should boast.
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 2:4-10

And he came and preached peace to you who were afar off

Having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two,
thus making peace.
And that he might reconcile them both to God in one body though the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.
And he came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near.
For though Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father
Ephesians 2: 15- 18

…and strangers from the covenant of promise,

Therefore remember that you, once gentiles in the flesh-who are called uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision made in the flesh by hands-
That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenant of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Ephesians 2:11-12

For He himself is our peace

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
For He himself is our peace, who has made both one and has broken down the middle wall of separation.
Ephesians 2: 13-14


…But fellow citizens with the saints
Now therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.
Ephesians 2: 19


Chief Cornerstone

Having been built on the foundations of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ himself, being the Chief Cornerstone.
Ephesians 2: 20

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