Ephesians 2:12-19 that at that time you were without Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers of the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

LITV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹² that at that time you were without Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers of the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. ¹³ But now, in Christ Jesus you who then were afar off came to be near by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴ For He is our peace, He making us both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition, ¹⁵ in His flesh causing to cease the enmity, the Law of the commandments in decrees, that He might in Himself create the two into one new man, making peace, ¹⁶ and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, slaying the enmity in Himself. ¹⁷ And coming, He proclaimed "peace to you, the ones afar off, and to the ones near." Isa. 57:19 ¹⁸ For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. ¹⁹ So, then, you are no longer strangers and tenants, but you are fellow citizens of the saints and of the household of God,