Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
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;
- BSB Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
- 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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Quick answer
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 3:20For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
- 1 Jn 3:1See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
- Gal 6:10So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
- Gal 3:26–28For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
- Eph 2:12that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
- Eph 3:6that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,
- Heb 11:13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
- Heb 12:22–24But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
- Rev 21:12–26having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.
- Gal 4:26–31But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
- Eph 3:15from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
- Matt 10:25It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
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