¹²Also, at that time you were without Christ. You were excluded from citizenship in Israel, and the pledges^b⸤God made in his⸥ promise were foreign to you. You had no hope and were in the world without God.

¹³But now through Christ Jesus you, who were once far away, have been brought near by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴So 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. ¹⁵He brought an end to the commandments and demands found in Moses’ Teachings so that he could take Jewish and non-Jewish people and create one new humanity in himself. So he made peace. ¹⁶He also brought them back to God in one body by his cross, on which he killed the hostility. ¹⁷He came with the Good News of peace for you who were far away and for those who were near. ¹⁸So Jewish and non-Jewish people can go to the Father in one Spirit.

¹⁹That is why you are no longer foreigners and outsiders but citizens together with God’s people and members of God’s family.

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Footnotes

b 2:12 Or “covenants.”