Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
Parallel translations
- WEB So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
- KJV Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
- NKJV Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
- NASB So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household,
- NLT So now you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens along with all of God’s holy people. You are members of God’s family.
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Gentile believers are no longer strangers but fellow citizens and members of God's household. It affirms the full belonging of Gentiles among God's people.
Overview
Paul applies the reconciliation: Gentiles are 'no longer strangers and foreigners' but 'fellow citizens with the saints' and members of 'the household of God.' Two images — the city and the family — convey their full inclusion. Those once excluded (v. 12) now belong wholly to God's people.
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Cross-references · 12
- Phil 3:20But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
- 1 Jn 3:1Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
- Gal 6:10Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to the family of faith.
- Gal 3:26–28You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
- Eph 2:12remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
- Eph 3:6This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.
- Heb 11:13All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
- Heb 12:22–24Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels
- Rev 21:12–26The city had a great and high wall with twelve gates inscribed with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, and twelve angels at the gates.
- Gal 4:26–31But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
- Eph 3:15from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.
- Matt 10:25It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!
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