Ezekiel 11:16-17

16Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet aI have been a sanctuary to them for a while
Or in small measure
in the countries where they have gone.’
17Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: cI will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, dand I will give you the land of Israel.’

Ezekiel 34:12

12As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on ea day of clouds and fthick darkness.

Ephesians 2:14-17

14For ghe himself is our peace, hwho has made us both one and has broken down iin his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in jordinances, that he might create in himself one knew man in place of the two, so making peace, 16and might lreconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 17And he came and mpreached peace to you who were nfar off and peace to those who were onear.

James 1:1

Greeting

1 pJames, a servant
Or slave (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface)
of God and rof the Lord Jesus Christ,

To sthe twelve tribes in tthe Dispersion:

Greetings.

1 Peter 1:1

Greeting

1Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,

To those who are elect exiles of uthe Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
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