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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which was not disclosed to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his sacred apostles and prophets by the Spirit),

For the promise is meant for you and for your children and for all who are far off, for anyone whom the Lord our God may call to himself."

Symeon has explained how it was God's original concern to secure a People from among the Gentiles to bear his Name.

But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles ????'"

that their eyes may be opened and that they may turn from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God, to get remission of their sins and an inheritance among those who are consecrated by faith in me.'

Christ, I mean, became a servant to the circumcised in order to prove God's honesty by fulfilling His promises to the fathers,

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so as himself to give the death-blow to that feud by reconciling them both to God in one Body through the cross;

in whom we enjoy our redemption, the forgiveness of our trespasses, by the blood he shed.

All have sinned, all come short of the glory of God,

Much more then, now that we are justified by his blood, shall we be saved by him from Wrath.

Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

So I am an envoy for Christ, God appealing by me, as it were ??be reconciled to God, I entreat you on behalf of Christ.

rescuing us from the power of the Darkness and transferring us to the realm of his beloved Son!

Hence even the first covenant of God's will was not inaugurated apart from blood;

you know it was not by perishable silver or gold that you were ransomed from the futile traditions of your past,

Christ himself died for sins, once for all, a just man for unjust men, that he might bring us near to God; in the flesh he was put to death but he came to life in the Spirit.

singing a new song: "Thou deservest to take the scroll and open its seals, for thou wast slain and by shedding thy blood hast ransomed for God men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation;