Bible verse

Ephesians 2:16

and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He extinguished their hostility.

Ephesians 2:16 · BSB

Ephesians 2:16 in context

The verses around it, from Ephesians 2.

12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

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

14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility

15 by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace

16 and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He extinguished their hostility.

17 He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.

18 For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

19 Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

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Ephesians 2:16 in other translations

KJV

And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

ASV

and might reconcile them both in one body unto God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

ERV

and might reconcile them both in one body unto God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

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