The Great Exchange: Made Alive in Christ
1 And you he made alive, who were dead in transgressions and sins, 2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience. 3 Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, following the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in transgressions made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved. 6 And raised us up with him, and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come he might show the surpassing riches of his grace in his kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
