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Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

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having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone,

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in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

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in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

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For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles-

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if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you,

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how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already,

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by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ),

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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:

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that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel,

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of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power.