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12 that ye were at that time independent of Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and alien of the covenants of the promise, having no hope and godless in the world.
13 But now in Christ Jesus ye, being formerly far off, became near in the blood of the Christ.
14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the dividing wall of partition,
15 having abolished in his flesh the enmity-the law of the commandments in ordinances-so that he might create in himself the two into one new man, making peace,
16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity by it.
17 And after coming he preached good news, peace to you, to those far off and to those near,
18 because through him we both have the access in one Spirit to the Father.
19 So then ye are no more alien and foreign, but fellow citizens of the sanctified, and belonging to the household of God.
20 Which was built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner,
21 in whom the whole building joined together grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
22 in whom ye also are built together in Spirit into a habitation of God.
3 1 For this reason I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,
2 since indeed ye heard of the administration of the grace of God, which was given to me for you,
3 that according to revelation he made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief.
4 With which reading ye can recognize my understanding in the mystery of the Christ,
5 which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets.
6 For Gentiles to be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and fellow partakers of his promise in the Christ through the good news.
7 Of which I became a helper according to the gift of that grace of God, which was given to me according to the working of his power.
8 To me, a man less than the least of all the sanctified, this grace was given to preach good news among the Gentiles, the unsearchable wealth of Christ,