Ephesians 2:11-13 ▼

11 So then, remember that at one time you gentiles by birth were called |the uncircumcised| by those who called themselves |the circumcised.| They underwent physical circumcision done by human hands.

12 At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from citizenship in Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise. You had no hope and were in the world without God.

13 But now, in union with the Messiah Jesus, you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.