11 So then, remember that once you physical Gentiles—called ‘uncircumcision’ by the so-called ‘circumcision’ (that made in flesh with hands)— 12 that at that time you were apart from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and strangers to 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 away have come to be near through the blood of the Christ.