Ephesians 2:11-22 - Jewish And Gentile Believers United In Christ

¹¹ For which reason, remember that you were formerly Gen tiles, by natural descent, and that you are called Uncircumcision by the Circumcision; so called, from a mark made in the flesh by hands; ¹² that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the community of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and having no God in the world: ¹³ but now, in Christ Jesus, you, who were formerly far off, have become near, by the blood of the Christ. ¹⁴ For he is our peace, who has made both parties one, and broken down the partition wall that separated us, ¹⁵ having abolished, in his flesh, the cause of enmity, the law of commandments in ordinances, that he might, by himself, form the two into one new man, thus making peace; ¹⁶ and that he might reconcile both, in one body, to God, through the cross, having by it put to death the cause of enmity; ¹⁷ and having come, he preached peace to you who were far off, and to those who were near: ¹⁸ for, through him, we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. ¹⁹ Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, ²⁰ having been builded upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone, ²¹ in whom the whole building, compactly fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; ²² in whom you also are builded together, for a dwelling-place of God by his Spirit.