إِذًا فَلَسْتُم بَعْدُ غُرَبَاءَ ولا نُزَلاء، بَلْ أَنْتُم أَهْلُ مَدِينَةِ القِدِّيسِينَ وأَهْلُ بَيْتِ الله/You are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God
إِذًا فَلَسْتُم بَعْدُ غُرَبَاءَ ولا نُزَلاء، بَلْ أَنْتُم أَهْلُ مَدِينَةِ القِدِّيسِينَ وأَهْلُ بَيْتِ الله الزوادة الإيمانية لليوم/رسالة القدّيس بولس إلى أهل أفسس02/من11حتى21/”يا إِخْوَتِي، تَذَكَّروُا، أَنْتُمُ الوَثَنِيِّينَ في الجَسَدِ سَابِقًا، أَلمَدعُوِّينَ أَهْلَ عَدَمِ الخِتَانَةِ عِنْدَ المَدعُوِّينَ أَهْلَ الخِتَانَة، بفِعْلِ اليَدِ في الجَسَد، تَذَكَّرُوا أَنَّكُم كُنْتُمْ في ذَلِكَ الوَقْتِ بِدُونِ مَسِيح، مُبْعَدِينَ عَنْ رَعِيَّةِ إِسْرَائِيل، وغُرَبَاءَ عنِ عُهُودِ الوَعْد، لا رَجَاءَ لَكُم في العَالَمِ ولا إِله؛ أَمَّا الآنَ فَفِي المَسِيحِ يَسُوعَ أَنْتُمُ الَّذِينَ كُنْتُم مِنْ قَبْلُ بَعِيدِين، صِرْتُم بِدَمِ المَسِيحِ قَرِيبِين. فَإِنَّهُ هُوَ سَلامُنَا، هُوَ جَعَلَ الٱثْنَيْنِ وَاحِدًا، وفي جَسَدِهِ نَقَضَ الجِدَارَ الفَاصِلَ بَيْنَهُمَا، أَي العَدَاوَة، وأَبْطَلَ شَريعَةَ الوَصَايَا بِمَا فِيهَا مِنْ فَرائِض، لِيَخْلُقَ ٱلٱثْنَينِ في شَخْصِهِ إِنْسَانًا وَاحِدًا جَدِيدًا، بإِحْلالِهِ السَّلامَ بَيْنَهُمَا، ويُصَالِحَهُمَا مَعَ الله، كِلَيْهِمَا في جَسَدٍ وَاحِد، بِالصَّليب، قَاتِلاً فيهِ العَدَاوَةَ بَيْنَهُمَا. فلَمَّا جَاءَ بَشَّرَكُم بِالسَّلامِ أَنْتُمُ البَعِيدِين، وبَشَّرَ بالسَّلامِ القَرِيبين، لأَنَّنَا بِهِ نِلْنَا نَحْنُ الاثْنَينِ في رُوحٍ وَاحِدٍ الوُصُولَ إِلى الآب. إِذًا فَلَسْتُم بَعْدُ غُرَبَاءَ ولا نُزَلاء، بَلْ أَنْتُم أَهْلُ مَدِينَةِ القِدِّيسِينَ وأَهْلُ بَيْتِ الله،بُنِيتُمْ على أَسَاسِ الرُّسُلِ والأَنْبِيَاء، والمَسِيحُ يَسُوعُ نَفْسُهُ هُوَ حَجَرُ الزَّاوِيَة. فيهِ يَتَمَاسَكُ البِنَاءُ كُلُّه، فَيَرْتَفِعُ هَيْكَلاً مُقَدَّسًا في الرَّبّ.”
You are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God
Letter to the Ephesians 02/11-21: “Remember that at one time you Gentiles by birth, called ‘the uncircumcision’ by those who are called ‘the circumcision’ a physical circumcision made in the flesh by human hands remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us. He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, so that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it. So he came and proclaimed peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near; for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord;”
If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you for ever
John 14/15-26: “‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you for ever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you. ‘I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live. On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.’Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, ‘Lord, how is it that you will reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?’Jesus answered him, ‘Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; and the word that you hear is not mine, but is from the Father who sent me. ‘I have said these things to you while I am still with you. But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have said to you.”
