Ephesians 2:11-17 (1:5) Wherefore, remember that you were formerly gentiles by birth, called uncircumcision by that called circumcision made in the flesh by the hand,

Sawyer⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹¹ ^(1:5) Wherefore, remember that you were formerly gentiles by birth, called uncircumcision by that called circumcision made in the flesh by the hand, ¹² that at that time you were without Christ, alienated from the polity of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world; ¹³ but now, in Christ Jesus you who were formerly far off have been made nigh by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴ For he is our peace, who made both one and broke down the middle wall of partition, ¹⁵ the enmity, and abolished by his flesh the law of commandments [consisting] of ordinances, that of the two he might create in himself one new man, making peace, ¹⁶ and reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having destroyed the enmity by it. ¹⁷ And he came and preached the good news of peace to you who were far off, and peace to those nigh,