¹² Also, at that time you were without Christ. You were excluded from citizenship in Israel, and the pledges ^[a] ⌞God made in his⌟ promise were foreign to you. You had no hope and were in the world without God.

¹⁹ That is why you are no longer foreigners and outsiders but citizens together with God’s people and members of God’s family. ²⁰ You are built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Christ Jesus himself is the cornerstone. ²¹ In him all the parts of the building fit together and grow into a holy temple in the Lord. ²² Through him you, also, are being built in the Spirit together with others into a place where God lives.