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What does Ephesians 2:7 mean?
"that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;"
— Ephesians 2:7 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
not of works, that no one would boast.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
Explanation
Ephesians 2:7 comes at the climax of one of Paul's most important theological statements about salvation. The verse says that God saved us and raised us up with Christ so that in all the ages to come, he might display the immense, overflowing riches of his grace and kindness toward us through Jesus. In plain terms, Paul is saying that God did not save us merely to rescue us from sin
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