Ephesians 2:13 Cross References - MNT

¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near in the blood of Christ.

³⁹ "For the promise belongs to you and to your children and to all who are afar off, whomever the Lord may call."

¹⁴ "Brothers, listen to me. Symeon has told how God first looked graciously upon the Gentiles, to take out from among them a people to be called by his name.

²¹ "'Depart,' he said to me, 'for I will send you forth, far hence, to the Gentiles.'"

¹⁸ "'so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, in order to receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

²³ since all have sinned and lack the glory which comes from God; ²⁴ but they are now being justified by his free grace through the deliverance that is in Christ Jesus. ²⁵ For God openly set him forth for himself as an offering of atonement through faith, by means of his blood, in order to show forth his righteousness—since in his forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed—to show forth his righteousness, ²⁶ I say, at this present time; that he himself might be just, and yet the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus. ²⁷ Then what becomes of boasting? It is shut out. What sort of law forbids it? A law of works? No, but a law of faith. ²⁸ For I conclude that a man is justified by faith, altogether apart from the deeds of the Law. ²⁹ Is God then the God of the Jews alone, and not of the Gentiles also? He is God of the Gentiles also, ³⁰ since there is one God who will justify the circumcised through faith, and by their faith will he justify the uncircumcised.

⁹ By how much more, then, being now justified in his blood, shall we be saved through him from the wrath of God. ¹⁰ For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved in his life.

¹ Thus there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus;

⁸ For I say that Christ has been made a minister of the Circumcision the people of Israel, in vindication of God's truth, so that he may confirm the promises given to our forefathers; ⁹ and so that the Gentiles also should praise God for his mercy, as it is written, Therefore I will offer praise to thee among the Gentiles, And sing to thy name. ¹⁰ Or again, Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people. ¹¹ Or again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles, And let all the people extol him. ¹² Or again, as Isaiah says. There shall be the root of Jesse, And he that arises to rule over the Gentiles; On him shall the Gentiles hope.

³⁰ It is of him that you are in Christ Jesus, whom God made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

¹¹ Such were some of you, but you have washed away your stains, you have been consecrated, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

¹⁷ So there is a new creation when any man is in Christ. The old life has passed away, behold, the new is come.

²⁰ On Christ's behalf, then, I come as ambassador. It is as though God was entreating you, through me, on Christ's behalf I beg you to be reconciled to God. ²¹ Him who knew no sin, in our behalf he has made to be sin; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

²⁸ In him there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

⁷ It is in him we have deliverance, the forgiveness of our trespasses, through his blood;

¹² were once upon a time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the covenants of the Promise, without hope and without God in the world.

¹⁶ Thus he reconciled us both in one body to God by his cross, on which he slew our enmity. ¹⁷ So he came preaching "Peace" to you Gentiles who were afar off, and "Peace" to us Jews who were near;

¹⁹ Take notice then that no longer are you strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household. ²⁰ You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone. ²¹ In him the whole building, fitly framed together, rises into a holy temple in the Lord; ²² and in him you, too, are continuously built together for a dwelling-place of God through his Spirit.

⁵ which was not disclosed to the sons of men in former generations, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets, ⁶ namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles form one body with us the Jews, and are coheirs and copartners in the promise, through the gospel. ⁷ It is of this gospel I became a minister according to the gift of the power of the grace of God, bestowed on me by the energy of his power. ⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, that I should proclaim among the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ;

¹³ For he has delivered us out of the dominion of the darkness, and transplanted us into the kingdom of his dear Son, ¹⁴ in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

²⁰ and by him it chose to reconcile all things alike on earth or in heaven to himself; making peace by him, through the blood of his cross. ²¹ And you, alienated as you once were, hostile at heart in your evil deeds, ²² he has now in his human body reconciled to God by his death, in order that he may bring you into his presence, holy and unblemished and irreproachable.

¹⁸ Accordingly we find that not without blood was the first testament enacted.

¹⁸ For you well know that not with perishable things, with silver or gold, were you redeemed from the emptiness of your manner of life, received by tradition from your ancestors; ¹⁹ but with precious blood, like that of a lamb without spot or blemish, even the blood of Christ.

¹⁸ because Christ also once for all suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but make alive in spirit.

⁹ And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy art thou to take the book And to open its seals; For thou wast slain and didst ransom for God Men out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation;