The Church: God’s Family

One in Christ

¹¹Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called kthe circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— ¹²remember lthat you were at that time separated from Christ, malienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to nthe covenants of promise, ohaving no hope and without God in the world. ¹³But now in Christ Jesus you who once were pfar off have been brought near qby the blood of Christ. ¹⁴For rhe himself is our peace, swho has made us both one and has broken down tin his flesh the dividing wall of hostility ¹⁵by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in uordinances, that he might create in himself one vnew man in place of the two, so making peace, ¹⁶and might wreconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. ¹⁷And he came and xpreached peace to you who were yfar off and peace to those who were znear. ¹⁸For athrough him we both have baccess in cone Spirit to the Father. ¹⁹So then you are no longer dstrangers and aliens,4 but you are efellow citizens with the saints and fmembers of the household of God, ²⁰gbuilt on the foundation of the hapostles and prophets, iChrist Jesus himself being jthe cornerstone, ²¹kin whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into la holy temple in the Lord. ²²In him myou also are being built together ninto a dwelling place for God by5 the Spirit.