There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

But out of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who was made for us from God wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near.

Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

in whom the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets:

of which I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power.

All who see Me mock Me; they shoot out the lip; they shake the head, saying,

For lo, those who are far from You shall perish; You have destroyed all those who go whoring away from You.

And in that day there shall be the Root of Jesse, standing as a banner for the people; to Him the nations shall resort; and His resting place shall be glorious.

Therefore glorify Jehovah in the light of the fire, the name of the Lord Jehovah of Israel from the seashores.

From the ends of the earth we have heard songs, glory to the righteous. But I said, Leanness to me! Leanness to me! Woe to me! Deceivers deceive, even with treachery. Deceivers deceive!

I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Do not keep back; bring My sons from afar and My daughters from the ends of the earth;

Behold, these shall come from afar; and, lo, those from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.

I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off, and to him who is near, says Jehovah; and I will heal him.

Lift up your eyes all around, and see. All of them gather themselves; they come to you. Your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be carried on the side.

Surely the coastlands shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish will come first, to bring your children from afar, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of Jehovah your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He has glorified you.

And I will set a sign among them. And those among them who escape I will send to the nations; to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud (who draw the bow), to Tubal, and Javan; to the far away coasts that have not heard of My fame, nor seen My glory. And they shall declare My glory among the nations.

O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come to You from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.

Simon has declared how God at the first looked upon the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His name.

Then He said to me, Depart, for I will send you far from here to the Gentiles.

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

Now I say that Jesus Christ has become a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises unto the fathers,

And again he says: Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.

And again, Isaiah says: There shall be a root of Jesse; and He who shall rise to reign over the Gentiles, in Him the Gentiles shall hope.

and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins, according to the riches of His grace

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

whom God set forth as a propitiation through faith in His blood, to give evidence of His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but through the law of faith.

Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also,

Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

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

Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ. As God is exhorting through us, we beseech you on Christ's behalf, Be reconciled to God.

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

who has delivered us from the authority of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

in whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins.

And you, who once were alienated and hostile in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled

in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and without blemish, and above reproach in His sight;

Therefore neither was the first covenant dedicated without blood.

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your vain way of life received by tradition from your fathers,

but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,

And they sing a new song, saying: You are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals; for You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,