¹⁸ When they heard this, they ^[a]quieted down and ^(A)glorified God, saying, “Well then, God has also granted to the Gentiles the ^(B)repentance that leads to life.”

⁹ and ^(A)He made no distinction between us and them, ^(B)cleansing their hearts by faith.

¹² remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, ^[a](A)excluded from ^[b]the people of Israel, and strangers to ^(B)the covenants of the promise, having ^(C)no hope and ^(D)without God in the world. ¹³ But now in ^(E)Christ Jesus you who ^(F)previously were ^(G)far away ^[c]have ^(H)been brought near ^[d](I)by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴ For He Himself is ^(J)our peace, ^(K)who made both groups into one and broke down the ^[e]barrier of the dividing wall,

⁶ to be specific, that the Gentiles are ^(A)fellow heirs and ^(B)fellow members of the body, and ^(C)fellow partakers of the promise in ^(D)Christ Jesus through the gospel,

¹¹ a renewal in which ^(A)there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, ^(B)circumcised and uncircumcised, ^[a](C)barbarian, ^[b]Scythian, ^(D)slave, and free, but ^(E)Christ is all, and in all.