⁸ Now I say that ^(A)Jesus Christ has become a ^[a]servant to the circumcision for the truth of God, ^(B)to confirm the promises made to the fathers,

²⁴ But He answered and said, ^(A)“I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

^11 (A)He came to His ^[a]own, and His ^[b]own did not receive Him.

⁴ But ^(A)when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, ^(B)born^{[a] (C)}of a woman, ^(D)born under the law, ^5 (E)to redeem those who were under the law, ^(F)that we might receive the adoption as sons.

^20 (A)For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.

^25 (A)You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ^(B)‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’ ²⁶ To you ^(C)first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, ^(D)in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.”

¹⁶ And ^(A)other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; ^(B)and there will be one flock and one shepherd.

⁹ But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of ^(A)darkness into His marvelous light; ^10 (B)who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.

¹² 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. ¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Christ Our Peace

¹⁴ For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, ¹⁵ having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one ^(A)new man from the two, thus making peace, ¹⁶ and that He might ^(B)reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby ^(C)putting to death the enmity. ¹⁷ And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. ¹⁸ For ^(D)through Him we both have access ^(E)by one Spirit to the Father.

Christ Our Cornerstone

¹⁹ Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, ²⁰ having been ^(F)built ^(G)on the foundation of the ^(H)apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being ^(I)the chief cornerstone, ²¹ in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into ^(J)a holy temple in the Lord, ^22 (K)in whom you also are being built together for a ^(L)dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

The Mystery Revealed

3 For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles— ² if indeed you have heard of the ^[a]dispensation of the grace of God ^(M)which was given to me for you, ^3 (N)how that by revelation ^(O)He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already, ⁴ by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ), ⁵ 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: ⁶ that the Gentiles ^(P)should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel, ^7 (Q)of which I became a minister ^(R)according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by ^(S)the effective working of His power.

Purpose of the Mystery

⁸ To me, ^(T)who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles ^(U)the unsearchable riches of Christ,