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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Romans 15:8

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that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the community of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and having no God in the world:

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

For the promise is to you, and your children, and to all that are afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Simeon has declared how God, at the first, did visit the Gentiles, in order to take out from among them a people for his name.

And he said to me, Depart, for I will send you far off to the Gentiles.

in order to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins, and an inheritance among the sanctified, by faith in me.

Now, I say, that Jesus Christ, as a minister, was of the circumcision for the sake of the truth of God, in order to con firm the promises made to the fathers,

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and that he might reconcile both, in one body, to God, through the cross, having by it put to death the cause of enmity;

in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the remission of sins, according to the riches of his grace,

for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God,

much more, then, since we are now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from the wrath through him.

And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

Therefore, we act as ambassadors for Christ, as though God entreated through us; we beseech in Christ's stead, be reconciled to God:

who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,

Wherefore, the first covenant was not instituted without blood.

because you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain mode of life received by tradition from your fathers,

For Christ also once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, having been put to death in flesh, but made alive in spirit;

And they sung a new song, saying: Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation: