Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity in it,
New American Standard Bible
and might
King James Version
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
Holman Bible
He did this so that He might reconcile both to God in one body
International Standard Version
and reconciling both groups to God in one body through the cross, on which he eliminated the hostility.
A Conservative Version
and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity by it.
American Standard Version
and might reconcile them both in one body unto God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
Amplified
And [that He] might reconcile them both [Jew and Gentile, united] in one body to God through the cross, thereby putting to death the hostility.
An Understandable Version
[This was also intended] to reestablish harmony between both of these peoples and God in [this] one body, through [Christ's death on] the cross. By doing this He put to death the hostility [between them].
Anderson New Testament
and that he might reconcile both, in one body, to God, through the cross, having by it put to death the cause of enmity;
Bible in Basic English
And that the two might come into agreement with God in one body through the cross, so putting an end to that division.
Common New Testament
and might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, by which he put to death the hostility.
Daniel Mace New Testament
that he might reconcile both in one body unto God by the cross, wherefore he destroyed the enmity that was between them:
Darby Translation
and might reconcile both in one body to God by the cross, having by it slain the enmity;
Godbey New Testament
and that he may reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity on in.
Goodspeed New Testament
and to kill the feud between them with his cross and in one body reconcile them both to God with it.
John Wesley New Testament
And might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby.
Julia Smith Translation
And that he might reconcile anew both in one body to God by the cross, having slain the eninity in it:
King James 2000
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
Lexham Expanded Bible
and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, killing the enmity in himself.
Modern King James verseion
and so that He might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity in Himself.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And to reconcile both unto God in one body through his cross, and slew hatred thereby:
Moffatt New Testament
so as himself to give the death-blow to that feud by reconciling them both to God in one Body through the cross;
Montgomery New Testament
Thus he reconciled us both in one body to God by his cross, on which he slew our enmity.
NET Bible
and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed.
New Heart English Bible
and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which he put to death their enmity.
Noyes New Testament
and might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, having slain on it the enmity.
Sawyer New Testament
and reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having destroyed the enmity by it.
The Emphasized Bible
And might fully reconcile them both, in one body, through means of the cross, - slaying the enmity thereby; -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
and might reconcile them both in one body to God by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby;
Twentieth Century New Testament
And when, upon the cross, he had destroyed their mutual enmity, he sought by means of his cross to reconcile them both to God, united in one Body.
Webster
And that he might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, having by it slain the enmity:
Weymouth New Testament
thus effecting peace, and to reconcile Jews and Gentiles in one body to God, by means of His cross--slaying by it their mutual enmity.
Williams New Testament
to reconcile them both to God with His cross after He had killed the hostility through it.
World English Bible
and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.
Worrell New Testament
and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby;
Worsley New Testament
and that He might reconcile both in one body unto God, by the cross, having thereby slain the enmity:
Themes
The atonement » Reconciliation to God effected by
Christ » Cross of » Reconciliation through
Christ, the mediator » In virtue of his atonement
Cross of Christ » Reconciliation through
Reconciliation » Jesus Christ reconciling man to God
Reconciliation » Between God and man
Reconciliation » With God through Christ
Reconciliation with God » Effected for men » By the death of Christ
Reconciliation with God » Blotting out the hand-writing of ordinances is necessary to
Reconciliation with God » Effects of » Peace of God
Interlinear
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Ephesians 2:16
Images Ephesians 2:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jewish And Gentile Believers United In Christ
15 the enmity in his flesh, the law of the commands in ordinances having done away, that the two he might create in himself into one new man, making peace, 16 and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity in it, 17 and having come, he did proclaim good news -- peace to you -- the far-off and the nigh,
Cross References
Ephesians 2:15
the enmity in his flesh, the law of the commands in ordinances having done away, that the two he might create in himself into one new man, making peace,
Colossians 1:20-22
and through him to reconcile the all things to himself -- having made peace through the blood of his cross -- through him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens.
Romans 5:10
for if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.
Romans 6:6
this knowing, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;
Romans 8:3
for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,
Romans 8:7
because the mind of the flesh is enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,
2 Corinthians 5:18-21
And the all things are of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and did give to us the ministration of the reconciliation,
Galatians 2:20
with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;
Colossians 2:14
having blotted out the handwriting in the ordinances that is against us, that was contrary to us, and he hath taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;
1 Peter 4:1-2
Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin,