it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household!
Ephesians 2:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore you are no longer outsiders (exiles, migrants, and aliens, excluded from the rights of citizens), but you now share citizenship with the saints (God's own people, consecrated and set apart for Himself); and you belong to God's [own] household. American Standard Version (1901) So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, Common English Bible So now you are no longer strangers and aliens. Rather, you are fellow citizens with God’s people, and you belong to God’s household. Catholic Public Domain Version Now, therefore, you are no longer visitors and new arrivals. Instead, you are citizens among the saints in the household of God, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners; but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and the domestics of God, |
it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household!
So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us work for the good of all and especially for those of the family of faith.
remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
that is, the gentiles have become fellow heirs, members of the same body, and sharers in the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth,
For here we have no lasting city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.
See what love the Father has given 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.