Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵ even we being dead in trespasses, made-us-alive-with Christ— by grace you are saved— ⁶ and raised-us-with Him and seated-us-with Him in the heavenly-places in Christ Jesus, ⁷ in order that He might demonstrate^[a] in the coming ages^[b] the surpassing riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

For We Are Saved By Grace For The Good Works Which God Prepared For Us

⁸ For by grace you are saved through faith. And this^[c] is not from you. It is the gift of God— ⁹ not of works, in order that no one may boast. ¹⁰ For we are His workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared-beforehand in order that we might walk in them.