Ephesians 2:11–22

¹¹Wherefore remember that ye, once nations in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in the flesh done with the hand; ¹²that 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: ¹³but now in Christ Jesus ye who once were afar off are become nigh by the blood of the Christ.

¹⁴For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of enclosure, ¹⁵having 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; ¹⁶and might reconcile both in one body to God by the cross, having by it slain the enmity; ¹⁷and, 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. ¹⁸For through him we have both access by one Spirit to the Father. ¹⁹So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but ye are fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God, ²⁰being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner-stone, ²¹in whom all the building fitted together increases to a holy temple in the Lord; ²²in whom ye also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.