WPNT(i)
12 that at that time you were apart from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have come to be near through the blood of the Christ.
14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one and broken down the barrier of separation—the law with its commandments and ordinances—
15 having abolished the enmity through His ‘flesh’, so as to mold the two [Jew and Gentile] into one new man in Himself (thus making peace)
16 and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross (by which He killed the enmity).
17 He came and proclaimed peace to us, being both far and near,
18 because through Him we both have access to the Father, by one Spirit.
19 So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
20 built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone;