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 \v 1 Before you trusted Christ, you were powerless to obey God, as if you were dead.
 \v 2 You once lived like most people in the world today who now follow Satan, the evil ruler over the evil spirits whom we do not see. Satan is the evil spirit who is now controlling the people who disobey God.
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 \v 9 a gift that no one can earn, so no one can boast and say that he has saved himself.
 \v 10 So God has created us as new people joined to Christ Jesus, so we can do good things—things that God planned long ago for us to do.
 
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 \v 11 Do not forget that you non-Jewish believers were previously called Gentiles because you were not born as Jews. The Jews insulted you by calling you "uncircumcised pagans." They call themselves "the circumcision;" by this they mean that they, not you, are God's people, although circumcision is something that only humans do, not God. 
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 \v 19 Therefore now you non-Jews are no longer strangers and foreigners to God's people, but instead you are fellow members with those whom God has set apart for himself, and you belong to God's family for whom God is the Father.
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 \v 20 You are like stones that God has made to be part of his building, and the building is built on what the apostles and prophets taught. The most important stone, the cornerstone, of the building is Christ Jesus himself.
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 \v 21 Jesus is increasing his family of believers and fitting them together like a temple of stones is built and fit together, increasing as the Lord joins new believers to himself.
 \v 22 Jesus is building you up together, both Jews and non-Jews, into one family in which God lives by means of his Spirit.