Ephesians 2:12-3:8

Sawyer(i) 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, 18 for through him we both have access by one spirit to the Father. 19 Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow-citizens of the saints and of the family of God, 20 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone, 21 by which all the building being fitted together grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in which you also are built up together for a spiritual habitation of God. 3 1 (1:6) For this cause I Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ for you gentiles, 2 if indeed you heard of the dispensation of the grace of God given to me for you, 3 that by revelation the mystery was made known to me,—as I wrote before in a few words, 4 by reading which you can understand my knowledge of the mystery of Christ,— 5 which in other generations was not made known to the children of men as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit, 6 that the gentiles are co-heirs and of the same body and joint partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel, 7 of which I was made a minister by the gracious gift of God, given to me by the operation of his power. 8 To me, who am the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the nations the unsearchable riches of Christ,