11 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called *the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— 12 remember *that you were at that time separated from Christ, *alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to *the covenants of promise, *having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were *far off have been brought near *by the blood of Christ.