All believers are God’s “chosen” people. Once, they were strangers without hope, but now they are included in God’s family by the blood of Christ.

Paul reminds the Ephesians that their God who is rich in mercy and infinite in love, loved them even when they were dead in sin. Now, He has made them alive with Christ and raised them up together with Him in heavenly places — Jews and Gentiles alike. By grace they have been saved through God’s gift of faith, a faith impossible to achieve through their own strengths or abilities.