¹² remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners^(A) to the covenants of the promise,^(B) without hope^(C) and without God in the world. ¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you who once^(D) were far away have been brought near^(E) by the blood of Christ.^(F)

¹⁴ For he himself is our peace,^(G) who has made the two groups one^(H) and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, ¹⁵ by setting aside in his flesh^(I) the law with its commands and regulations.^(J) His purpose was to create in himself one^(K) new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, ¹⁶ and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross,^(L) by which he put to death their hostility.