Ephesians 2:11–22

Jewish and Gentile Believers United in Christ

¹¹Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, the so-called uncircumcision by the so-called circumcision in the flesh, made by hands, ¹²that you were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, not having hope, and without God in the world. ¹³But now in Christ Jesus you, the ones who once were far away, have become near by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴For he himself is our peace, who made both one and broke down the dividing wall of the partition, the enmity, in his flesh, ¹⁵invalidating the law of commandments in ordinances, in order that he might create the two in himself into one new man, thus^* making peace, ¹⁶and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, killing the enmity in himself.^{d 17}And coming, he proclaimed the good news of peace to you who were far away and peace to the ones who were near, ¹⁸because through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. ¹⁹Consequently, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens of the saints and members of the household of God, ²⁰built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,^{e 21}in whom the whole building, joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, ²²in whom you also are built up together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.^f