The Gift of God

God loves you so much that he doesn't even want to give you a chance to screw it up. So not only is salvation not come from you, but the faith that takes to be saved doesn't come from you. And then Paul says, and this not from yourselves, it's the gift of God. Verse 9, not by work so that no one can boast. But Jesus died for us doing what we could never do for ourselves  for the sole purpose of reconciling us to himself and to the Father.