Ephesians 2:1 (HCSB) And you were dead in your trespasses and sins.
Galatians 6:15 (HCSB) For both circumcision and uncircumcision mean nothing; ⌊what matters⌋ instead is a new creation.
We can't save ourselves by pulling on our bootstraps, even when the bootstraps are made of the finest religious leather.—Eugene Peterson
Leadership, Vol. 4, no. 3. Elesha Hodge, comp., Today's Best Illustrations – Volumes 1-4, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: "NEW MAN".
