among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

One in Christ

Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands—

For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.