¹⁵ When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit,^{(A) 16} because the Holy Spirit had not yet come on any of them;^(B) they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.^{(C) 17} Then Peter and John placed their hands on them,^(D) and they received the Holy Spirit.^(E)

Made Alive in Christ

2 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,^{(A) 2} in which you used to live^(B) when you followed the ways of this world^(C) and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air,^(D) the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.^{(E) 3} All of us also lived among them at one time,^(F) gratifying the cravings of our flesh^[a](G) and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.

⁸ For it is by grace^(A) you have been saved,^(B) through faith^(C)—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— ⁹ not by works,^(D) so that no one can boast.^(E)

²³ for all have sinned^(A) and fall short of the glory of God,

⁸ But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.^(A)