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 at that time ye were apart from Christ, alienated 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 was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

for the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all those afar off??s many as the Lord our God shall call to Him."

Simeon declared how God first visited the gentiles, to take out of them a people for His name.

And He said to me, 'Depart, because I will send you far hence to the gentiles.'

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

For I say that Christ hath become a minister of the circumcision, in behalf of God's truth, that He might confirm the promises made to the fathers;

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and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby;

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

for all sinned, and are coming short of the glory of God;

Much more, therefore, being now justified by His blood, shall we be saved from the wrath of God through Him.

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

On behalf of Christ, therefore, we are ambassadors, as though God were beseeching through us, we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God

Who delivered us out of the dominion of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of His love;

Wherefore, not even has the first covenant been dedicated without blood;

knowing that, not with perishable things, with silver or gold, were ye redeemed from your vain course of life handed down from your fathers;

because Christ also suffered for sins once, a Righteous One in behalf of the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

And they sing a new song, saying, "Worthy art Thou to take the book, and to open its seals; because Thou wast slain, and didst redeem to God, by Thy blood, some of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation;