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So Remember Your Hopeless Condition As Gentiles Without Christ And God’s Promises

11 Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh— the ones being called “the uncircumcised” by the one being called “the circumcised” (one done-by-human-hands in the flesh)— 12 that you were at that time without Christ, having been excluded from the citizenship[a] of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without-God in the world.

But Now Christ Made Peace And Reconciled Jews And Gentiles To God Through The Cross

13 But now in Christ Jesus you, the ones formerly being far-away, were made near by the blood of Christ. 14 For He Himself is our peace, the One having made both one and having broken-down the dividing-wall of partition[b], the hostility— in His flesh 15 having abolished[c] the Law of commandments in decrees[d] in order that He might create the two in Himself into one new man, making peace, 16 and reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility by it[e]. 17 And having come, He announced-as-good-news peace to you, the ones far-away, and peace to the ones near, 18 because[f] through Him we both have the access in[g] one Spirit to the Father.

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 2:12 Or, state, commonwealth. That is, the condition and rights of a citizen.
  2. Ephesians 2:14 partition... Law. Or, partition— in His flesh having abolished the hostility, the Law; or, partition, the hostility, in His flesh— having abolished the Law.
  3. Ephesians 2:15 Or, done away with.
  4. Ephesians 2:15 Or, regulations, ordinances.
  5. Ephesians 2:16 That is, the cross. Or, in Himself.
  6. Ephesians 2:18 Or, that.
  7. Ephesians 2:18 Or, by.

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