not as a result of works, so that no one may boast....

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;...

so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus....

andraised us up with Him, andseated us with Him inthe heavenlyplacesinChrist Jesus,...

even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive togetherwith Christ (by grace you have been saved)...

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us...

Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. ...

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience....

If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with You....

How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them!...