Ephesians 2:11–3:6

11  Wherefore remember that ye, once nations in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in the flesh done with the hand; 12  that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: 13  but now in Christ Jesus ye who once were afar off are become nigh by the blood of the Christ.

14  For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of enclosure, 15  having annulled the enmity in his flesh, the law of commandments in ordinances, that he might form the two in himself into one new man, making peace; 16  and might reconcile both in one body to God by the cross, having by it slain the enmity; 17  and, coming, he has preached the glad tidings of peace to you who were afar off, and the glad tidings of peace to those who were nigh. 18  For through him we have both access by one Spirit to the Father. 19  So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but ye are fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God, 20  being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner-stone, 21  in whom all the building fitted together increases to a holy temple in the Lord; 22  in whom ye also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

Chapter 3

1  For this reason I Paul, prisoner of the Christ Jesus for you nations, 2  (if indeed ye have heard of the administration of the grace of God which has been given to me towards you, 3  that by revelation the mystery has been made known to me, (according as I have written before briefly, 4  by which, in reading it, ye can understand my intelligence in the mystery of the Christ,) 5  which in other generations has not been made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the power of the Spirit, 6  that they who are of the nations should be joint heirs, and a joint body, and joint partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus by the glad tidings;