Free Grace

I was reading a book tonight that quoted Ephesians 2:8-9.  Do you ever read a passage and then think, I wonder how the amplified version says this?  I do probably more than most people.  It's gives me a better understanding if I didn't quite get it the first time around.  Anyway, this is a verse that I've grown up knowing most of my life but tonight it really jumped out at me in the amplified.  The thing that I want to grasp, convey and live out is found in these verses.  It's a gift that was unearned, unmerited and was impossible to get for yourself.  To me it shows the beauty of what grace is all about.

Ephesians 2:8-9

⁸ For it is by free grace (God’s unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God;

⁹ Not because of works [not the fulfillment of the Law’s demands], lest any man should boast. [It is not the result of what anyone can possibly do, so no one can pride himself in it or take glory to himself.]