11 Therefore remember that *you, once Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "the uncircumcision" by those who call themselves "the circumcision," which is made in the flesh by hands— 12 remember that you were apart from Christ at that time, excluded from the citizenship of 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 were once far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.