Ephesians
2:11-22
(11) Therefore remember that at one
time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what
is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands--
(12) remember
that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated 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 you
who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
(14) For he himself is our peace,
who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of
hostility
(15) by
abolishing the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in
himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,
(16) and
might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing
the hostility.
(17) And he came and preached peace
to you who were far off and peace to those who were near.
(18) For through him we both have
access in one Spirit to the Father.
(19) So then you are no longer
strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members
of the household of God,
(20) built
on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the
cornerstone,
(21) in
whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in
the Lord.
(22) In him you also are being
built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.