12 that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one ^anew man from the two, thus making peace,  ‡

16 and that He might ^areconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby ^bputting to death the enmity.  ‡