Ephesians 2:13

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Ephesians 2:13

But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

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remember that you were at that time separate from Christ,

excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

All who see me

sneer at me;

They separate with the lip, they wag the head, saying,

For, behold, those who are far from You will perish;
You have destroyed all those who

are unfaithful to You.

Then in that day
The nations will resort to the root of Jesse,
Who will stand as a

signal for the peoples;

And His resting place will be glorious.

Therefore glorify the Lord in the east,
The name of the Lord, the God of Israel,
In the

coastlands of the sea.

“I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
And to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’
Bring My sons from afar
And My daughters from the ends of the earth,

“Behold, these will come from afar;
And lo, these will come from the north and from the west,
And these from the land of Sinim.”

Creating the

praise of the lips.

Peace, peace to him who is far and to him who is near,”

Says the Lord, “and I will heal him.”

“Lift up your eyes round about and see;
They all gather together, they come to you.
Your sons will come from afar,
And your daughters will be carried in the arms.

I will set a sign among them and will send survivors from them to the nations: Tarshish, Put, Lud, Meshech, Tubal and Javan, to the distant coastlands that have neither heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they will declare My glory among the nations.

O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
And my refuge in the day of distress,
To You the nations will come
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but falsehood,
Futility and

things of no profit.”

For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

Simeon has related how God first concerned Himself about taking from among the Gentiles a people for His name.

And He said to me, ‘Go! For I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”

to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.’

For I say that Christ has become a servant to the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God to confirm the promises given to the fathers,

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and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the enmity.

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

for all

have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Much more then, having now been justified

by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.

Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

For He rescued us from the

domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of

His beloved Son,

Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood.

knowing that you were not

redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,

For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

And they *sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.