The one who steals must steal no longer; rather he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with the one who has need.

namely, that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.

So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body grows in love.