13But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
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For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. …
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: …
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; …
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-13)In these verses the apostle proceeds in his account of the miserable condition of these Ephesians by nature. Wherefore remember , etc., Eph. 2:11. As if he had said, “You should remember what you have been, and compare it with what you now are, in order to humble yourselves and to excite your love and thankfulness to God.” Note, Converted sinners ought frequently to reflect upon the sinfulness and…
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