Therefore
remember
you ‘gentiles in the flesh’
called the uncircumcised
by those called circumcised in the flesh
by human hands
that you were at that time
apart from Christ
excluded from the commonwealth of Israel
and strangers from the covenants of promise
having no hope
and without God
in the world.
But now in Christ Jesus,
you
who were formerly far away
have been brought near
by the blood of Christ.
God be in head and in my understanding;
God be in my eyes and in my looking;
God be in my mouth and in my speaking;
God be in my heart and in my thinking;
God be at my end and at my departing.