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12 and that you were then apart from Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world.
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far have become near by the blood of Christ.
14 For he is our peace. He has made both Jew and Gentile one and has broken down the dividing wall, the enmity.
15 In his own flesh he has ended the force of the law of commandments in ordinances in order to make the two, in himself, into one new man, thus making peace,
16 and in order to reconcile both in one body to God through his cross, by slaying the enmity by it.
17 And he came and brought the good news of peace to you who were far and peace to those who were near.
18 For through him we, both Jews and Gentiles, have access through one Spirit to the Father.
19 So then you are no longer strangers and resident aliens, but fellow citizens with the holy and members of the household of God,
20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner stone.
21 In him all the building, framed together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord,
22 in whom you also are being built for a dwelling of God in the Spirit.
3 1 FOR this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles, —
2 if you have heard of the gracious commission which God has given me to you,
3 that by revelation the mystery has been disclosed to me, as I wrote before briefly,
4 In reading that letter you can learn my understanding in the mystery of Christ,
5 a mystery which was not disclosed in other generations to the sons of men as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,
6 namely, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, fellow sharers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the good news,
7 of which I became a servant according to the free grace of God which was given me by the inworking of his power.
8 To me, the least of all the holy, has this grace been given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the good news of the unsearchable riches of Christ