Ephesians 2:13
Good News Translation
But now, in union with Christ Jesus you, who used to be far away, have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

New Revised Standard Version
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Contemporary English Version
and you were far from God. But Christ offered his life's blood as a sacrifice and brought you near God.

New American Bible
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have become near by the blood of Christ.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But now in Christ Jesus, you, who some time were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But now in Christ Jesus, you, who some time were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

in.

Romans 8:1 There is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh.

1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption:

2 Corinthians 5:17 If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed away. Behold all things are made new.

Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek: there is neither bond nor free: there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

were.

Ephesians 2:12,17,19-22 That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise and without God in this world. . . .

Ephesians 3:5-8 Which in other generations was not known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit: . . .

Psalm 22:7 All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.

Psalm 73:27 For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.

Isaiah 11:10 In that day the root of Jesse, who standeth for an ensign of the people, him the Gentiles shall beseech, and his sepulchre shall be glorious.

Isaiah 24:15,16 Therefore glorify ye the Lord in instruction: the name of the Lord God of Israel in the islands of the sea. . . .

Isaiah 43:6 I will say to the north: Give up: and to the south: Keep not back: bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth.

Isaiah 49:12 Behold these shall come from afar, and behold these from the north and from the sea, and these from the south country.

Isaiah 57:19 I created the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, said the Lord, and I healed him.

Isaiah 60:4,9 Lift up thy eyes round about, and see: all these are gathered together, they are come to thee: thy sons shall come from afar, and thy daughters shall rise up at thy side. . . .

Isaiah 66:19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send of them that shall be saved, to the Gentiles into the sea, into Africa, and Lydia them that draw the bow: into Italy, and Greece, to the islands afar off, to them that have not heard of me, and have not seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory to the Gentiles:

Jeremiah 16:19 O Lord, my might, and my strength, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed lies, a vanity which hath not profited them.

Acts 2:39 For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, whomsoever the Lord our God shall call.

Acts 15:14 Simon hath related how God first visited to take to the Gentiles, a people to his name.

Acts 22:21 And he said to me: Go, for unto the Gentiles afar off will I send thee.

Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, that they may be converted from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a lot among the saints, by the faith that is in me.

Romans 15:8-12 For I say that Christ Jesus was minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: . . .

are.

Ephesians 2:16 And might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, killing the enmities in himself.

Ephesians 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins, according to the riches of his, grace,

Romans 3:23-30 For all have sinned and do need the glory of God. . . .

Romans 5:9,10 Christ died for us. Much more therefore, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from wrath through him. . . .

1 Corinthians 6:11 And such some of you were. But you are washed: but you are sanctified: but you are justified: in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Spirit of our God.

2 Corinthians 5:20,21 For Christ therefore we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting by us, for Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God. . . .

Colossians 1:13,14,21,22 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love, . . .

Hebrews 9:18 Whereupon neither was the first indeed dedicated without blood.

1 Peter 1:18,19 Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers: . . .

1 Peter 3:18 Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit,

Revelation 5:9 And they sung a new canticle, saying: Thou art worthy, O Lord, to take the book and to open the seals thereof: because thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God, in thy blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation:

Context
One in Christ
12That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise and without God in this world. 13But now in Christ Jesus, you, who some time were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 14For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition, the enmities in his flesh:…
Cross References
Isaiah 57:19
I created the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, said the Lord, and I healed him.

John 10:16
And other sheep I have that are not of this fold: them also I must bring. And they shall hear my voice: And there shall be one fold and one shepherd.

Acts 2:39
For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, whomsoever the Lord our God shall call.

Romans 3:25
Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,

1 Corinthians 12:13
For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free: and in one Spirit we have all been made to drink.

Ephesians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to all the saints who are at Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:2
Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief:

Ephesians 2:6
And hath raised us up together and hath made us sit together in the heavenly places, through Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 2:17
And coming, he preached peace to you that were afar off: and peace to them that were nigh.

Colossians 1:20
And through him to reconcile all things unto himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, both as to the things that are on earth and the things that are in heaven.

Ephesians 2:12
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