Ephesians 2:14
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For He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us,
For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition,
For He Himself is our peace and our bond of unity. He who made both groups—[Jews and Gentiles]—into one body and broke down the barrier, the dividing wall [of spiritual antagonism between us],
For He is [Himself] our peace (our bond of unity and harmony). He has made us both [Jew and Gentile] one [body], and has broken down (destroyed, abolished) the hostile dividing wall between us,
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
For he is our peace, who made both groups one and tore down the dividing wall of hostility. In his flesh,
Christ is our peace. He made both Jews and Gentiles into one group. With his body, he broke down the barrier of hatred that divided us.
For he himself is our shalom — he has made us both one and has broken down the m’chitzah which divided us
Christ has made peace between Jews and Gentiles, and he has united us by breaking down the wall of hatred that separated us. Christ gave his own body
For *he* is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of enclosure,
For He Himself is our peace, the One having made both one and having broken-down the dividing-wall of partition, the hostility— in His flesh
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition, the enmities in his flesh:
Christ is the reason we are now at peace. He made us Jews and you who are not Jews one people. We were separated by a wall of hate that stood between us, but Christ broke down that wall. By giving his own body,
It is Christ himself who has brought peace between Jews and Gentiles. He has brought those two groups together, to be one group. He has destroyed the things that made them separate. As a result, they are no longer enemies.
For he himself is our peace. He made the two groups one by destroying the wall of hostility that divided them
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 he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility
Christ himself is our peace. He made ·both Jews and Gentiles one people [L both one], and broke down the wall of ·hate [hostility; enmity] that divided them [C the wall beyond which Gentiles could not pass in the Jerusalem temple, or the law of Moses that distinguished Jew from Gentile (see v. 15)] ·by giving his own body [L in his flesh; C this phrase may go with the following sentence].
For he is our peace, which hath made of both one, and hath broken the stop of the partition wall,
So he is our peace. In his body he has made Jewish and non-Jewish people one by breaking down the wall of hostility that kept them apart.
For Christ himself has brought us peace by making Jews and Gentiles one people. With his own body he broke down the wall that separated them and kept them enemies.
For He is our peace, who made both groups one and tore down the dividing wall of hostility. In His flesh,
Because of Christ we now have peace. Christ made both Jews and non-Jews one people. They were separated as if there were a wall between them. But Christ broke down that wall of hate by giving his own body.
For it is he who is our peace. Through his mortality he made both groups one by tearing down the wall of hostility that divided them.
For Christ is our living peace. He has made a unity of the conflicting elements of Jew and Gentile by breaking down the barrier which lay between us. By his sacrifice he removed the hostility of the Law, with all its commandments and rules, and made in himself out of the two, Jew and Gentile, one new man, thus producing peace. For he reconciled both to God by the sacrifice of one body on the cross, and by this act made utterly irrelevant the antagonism between them. Then he came and told both you who were far from God and us who were near that the war was over. And it is through him that both of us now can approach the Father in the one Spirit.
¶ For he is our peace, who of both has made one, breaking down the middle wall of separation,
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups one and broke down the dividing wall of the partition
For he himself is our peace, who made both one and broke down the dividing wall of the partition, the enmity, in his flesh,
For Christ himself is our way of peace. He has made peace between us Jews and you Gentiles by making us all one family, breaking down the wall of contempt that used to separate us.
The Messiah has made things up between us so that we’re now together on this, both non-Jewish outsiders and Jewish insiders. He tore down the wall we used to keep each other at a distance. He repealed the law code that had become so clogged with fine print and footnotes that it hindered more than it helped. Then he started over. Instead of continuing with two groups of people separated by centuries of animosity and suspicion, he created a new kind of human being, a fresh start for everybody.
For He is our peace, who has made both groups one and has broken down the barrier of the dividing wall,
For he is · our peace, who has made us · both one and has broken down the dividing · wall, having abolished in his flesh the hostility, ·
So he is our peace. In his body he has made Jewish and non-Jewish people one by breaking down the wall of hostility that kept them apart.
For he is our peace, he who made both one and broke down the dividing wall of enmity, through his flesh,
For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall,
For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall,
For he is our peace, who has made the two into one, by breaking down the barrier of hostility. In his flesh
Christ himself is our peace. He made both Jewish people and those who are not Jews one people. They were separated as if there were a wall between them, but Christ broke down that wall of hate by giving his own body.
For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility,
Christ himself is our peace. He has made Jews and Gentiles into one group of people. He has destroyed the hatred that was like a wall between us.
For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility,
For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility,
For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation,
We have peace because of Christ. He has made the Jews and those who are not Jews one people. He broke down the wall that divided them.
For Christ himself has brought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in his own body on the cross, he broke down the wall of hostility that separated us.
For he is our peace, who has made of both one, and has broken down the wall that was a partition between us,
For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us.
For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us.
For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us.
For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us,
He is our peace, you see. He has made the two to be one. He has pulled down the barrier, the dividing wall, that turns us into enemies of each other. He has done this in his flesh,
For Moshiach himself is our shalom, who made the Shneym into Echad, having broken down in the basar of Moshiach the barrier of the Mechitzah (the dividing partition), the Soreg (barrier of the holy precinct in the Beis HaMikdash between Jews and non-Jews), the Eyvah (Enmity),
For He is our peace. He has made of both, one, and has broken the barrier of hostility;
For he is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility,
For he is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility,
For He is our shalom, the One who made the two into one and broke down the middle wall of separation. Within His flesh He made powerless the hostility—
He is the embodiment of our peace, sent once and for all to take down the great barrier of hatred and hostility that has divided us so that we can be one.
For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,
Christ has made peace between us. He has brought both Jews and non-Jews together into one people. He has broken down the wall that divided us.
For he is our peace, that made both one, and unbinding the middle wall of a wall without mortar,
for he is our peace, who did make both one, and the middle wall of the enclosure did break down,
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