- Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called "uncircumcised" by those who call themselves "the circumcision" (that done in the body by the hands of men)--
- remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
- But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
- For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility,
- by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace,
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- 所以你們應當記念、你們從前按肉體是外邦人、是稱為沒受割禮的這名原是那些憑人手在肉身上稱為受割禮之人所起的.
- 那時、你們與基督無關、在以色列國民以外、在所應許的諸約上是局外人.並且活在世上沒有指望、沒有 神。
- 你們從前遠離 神的人、如今卻在基督耶穌裡、靠著他的血、已經得親近了。
- 因他使我們和睦、〔原文作因他是我們的和睦〕將兩下合而為一、拆毀了中間隔斷的牆.
- 而且以自己的身體、廢掉冤仇、就是那記在律法上的規條.為要將兩下、藉著自己造成一個新人、如此便成就了和睦.
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