⁹ If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”^(A) and believe in your heart^(B) that God raised him from the dead,^(C) you will be saved. ¹⁰ One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation. ¹¹ For the Scripture says, Everyone who believes on him will not be put to shame,^{[a](D) 12} since there is no distinction between Jew and Greek,^(E) because the same Lord^(F) of all^(G) richly blesses all who call on him. ¹³ For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.^[b](H)

Sons and Heirs

²⁷ For those of you who were baptized into Christ have been clothed with Christ.^{(A) 28} There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free,^(B) male and female;^(C) since you are all one^(D) in Christ Jesus.

⁸ For you are saved by grace^(A) through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift— ⁹ not from works, so that no one can boast. ¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created^(B) in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time^(C) for us to do.

Unity in Christ

¹¹ So, then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh—called “the uncircumcised” by those called “the circumcised,”^(D) which is done in the flesh by human hands.^{(E) 12} At that time you were without Christ, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of promise,^(F) without hope^(G) and without God in the world. ¹³ But now in Christ Jesus, you who were far away have been brought near by the blood^(H) of Christ. ¹⁴ For he is our peace, who made both groups one^(I) and tore down the dividing wall of hostility. In his flesh, ¹⁵ he made of no effect the law consisting of commands and expressed in regulations, so that he might create^(J) in himself one^(K) new man from the two, resulting in peace. ¹⁶ He did this so that he might reconcile both to God in one body^(L) through the cross by which he put the hostility to death.^{[a] 17} He came and proclaimed the good news^(M) of peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.^{(N) 18} For through him we both have access^(O) in one Spirit to the Father.^{(P) 19} So, then, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household, ²⁰ built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets,^(Q) with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. ²¹ In him the whole building, being put together,^(R) grows into a holy temple in the Lord.^{(S) 22} In him you are also being built together^(T) for God’s dwelling^(U) in the Spirit.

⁶ The Gentiles are coheirs, members of the same body, and partners in the promise^(A) in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

⁸ But now, put away^(A) all the following: anger,^(B) wrath,^(C) malice,^(D) slander,^(E) and filthy language from your mouth.^{(F) 9} Do not lie^(G) to one another, since you have put off^(H) the old self^(I) with its practices ¹⁰ and have put on^(J) the new self. You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your^[a] Creator.^{(K) 11} In Christ there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all.^(L)