Ephesians 3:6

World English Bible (2000)

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

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  • Rom 8:15-17 : 15 For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!" 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God; 17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
  • Gal 3:14 : 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
  • Eph 5:7 : 7 Therefore don't be partakers with them.
  • Eph 5:30 : 30 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
  • Col 2:19 : 19 and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth.
  • 1 John 1:3 : 3 that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
  • 1 John 2:25 : 25 This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.
  • Gal 4:5-7 : 5 that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children. 6 And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father!" 7 So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
  • Eph 2:13-22 : 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition, 15 having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace; 16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby. 17 He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, 20 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; 21 in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; 22 in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 12:27 : 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
  • Eph 4:15-16 : 15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ; 16 from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
  • Rom 12:4-5 : 4 For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function, 5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
  • 1 Cor 12:12 : 12 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
  • Gal 3:26-29 : 26 For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.

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  • Eph 3:1-5
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    1 For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

    2 if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you;

    3 how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,

    4 by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ;

    5 which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

  • 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

  • Eph 3:7-11
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    7 of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

    8 To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

    9 and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ;

    10 to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

    11 according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord;

  • Gal 3:28-29
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    28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

    29 If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.

  • Eph 2:18-19
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    18 For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

    19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

  • Col 1:24-27
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    24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the assembly;

    25 of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God,

    26 the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

    27 to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

  • Eph 2:11-13
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    11 Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands);

    12 that 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.

    13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

  • 26 For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

  • 23 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

  • 18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

  • 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

  • Rom 12:4-5
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    4 For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function,

    5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

  • 7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

  • 7 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

  • 8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."

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    12 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

    13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

  • 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

  • Eph 1:9-10
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    9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

    10 to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;

  • 23 and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

  • 6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,

  • 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

  • Eph 1:12-14
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    12 to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:

    13 in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation--in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

    14 who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory.

  • 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

  • 2 which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

  • 11 where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

  • 9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

  • 16 that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

  • 16 that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;

  • 7 It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

  • 12 giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;