Back to Basics #2 - Ephesians 3:6

 Here’s another for you in our ‘Back-to-Basics’. Make of it whatever you will but please let’s not get into an argument over translations.

“... the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.” Ephesians 3:6 NASB

This agrees with the King James Version and the English Standard Version.

However...                                                    

Editors of the ever popular New International Version (NIV) have chosen to add: “with Israel”    (Gentiles are heirs together WITH ISRAEL...)

Notice how this takes the focus off 'in Christ Jesus' - the whole theme of this letter - and more on Israel.