11 So then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles by birth and were called "the uncircumcision" by what is called "the circumcision" made in the flesh by hands.12 At that time you were without Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise. You had no hope and were in the world without God.13 But now, in Christ Jesus, you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.