Ephesians 2:15

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He has abolished the law with its commandments and regulations, so that He might create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace,

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  • Col 2:14 : 14 He erased the legal debt that stood against us with its decrees. He took it away, nailing it to the cross.
  • Col 2:20 : 20 If you died with Christ to the elemental principles of the world, why, as though still living in the world, do you submit to its decrees?
  • Col 3:10 : 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its Creator.
  • Gal 3:28 : 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
  • Gal 6:15 : 15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but what matters is a new creation.
  • Eph 4:16 : 16 From him the whole body, being joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love as each part does its work.
  • Col 1:21-22 : 21 And you, who were once alienated and hostile in your minds because of your evil deeds, 22 He has now reconciled in His physical body through death to present you holy, blameless, and above reproach before Him—
  • 2 Cor 5:17 : 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
  • Gal 3:10 : 10 For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.'
  • Heb 7:16 : 16 one who has become a priest not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.
  • Heb 8:13 : 13 By calling this covenant 'new,' he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.
  • Heb 9:9-9 : 9 This is a symbol for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered cannot perfect the worshiper in conscience. 10 They are only regulations concerning food and drink and various ceremonial washings, external ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.
  • Heb 9:23 : 23 Therefore, it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves require better sacrifices than these.
  • Heb 10:1-9 : 1 For the law, being only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very image of those realities, can never, through the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year, make those who draw near perfect. 2 Otherwise, wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having been cleansed once for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? 3 But instead, these sacrifices serve as a reminder of sins year after year. 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 5 Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You prepared a body for Me. 6 You were not pleased with whole burnt offerings and offerings for sin. 7 Then I said, 'Behold, I have come—it is written about Me in the scroll of the book—to do Your will, O God.'" 8 After saying above that sacrifices, offerings, whole burnt offerings, and offerings for sins You did not desire nor were pleased with—which are offered according to the law— 9 then He said, 'Behold, I have come to do Your will.' He takes away the first to establish the second. 10 And by that will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
  • Heb 10:19-22 : 19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, His body, 21 and since we have a great high priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

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  • Eph 2:16-19
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    16and might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross, by which He put their hostility to death.

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

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

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

  • Eph 2:11-14
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    11Therefore, remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh—who are called 'the uncircumcision' by those who are called 'the circumcision,' which is done in the flesh by human hands—

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

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

    14For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has broken down in His flesh the dividing wall of hostility.

  • Col 2:13-15
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    13And when you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ, forgiving us all our trespasses.

    14He erased the legal debt that stood against us with its decrees. He took it away, nailing it to the cross.

    15He disarmed the rulers and authorities, and he publicly exposed them, triumphing over them in him.

  • Col 1:20-22
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    20and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through His blood, shed on the cross.

    21And you, who were once alienated and hostile in your minds because of your evil deeds,

    22He has now reconciled in His physical body through death to present you holy, blameless, and above reproach before Him—

  • Eph 1:10
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    10for the administration of the fullness of the times, to bring everything together in Christ, both things in heaven and things on earth—in Him.

  • Col 3:9-11
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    9Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices,

    10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its Creator.

    11Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and in all.

  • Col 2:10-11
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    10And you have been made complete in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

    11In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not done by hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, through the circumcision of Christ.

  • Col 2:20
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    20If you died with Christ to the elemental principles of the world, why, as though still living in the world, do you submit to its decrees?

  • 2 Cor 5:16-19
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    16So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Even though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.

    17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

    18All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:

    19that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

  • Gal 6:15
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    15For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but what matters is a new creation.

  • Eph 4:3
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    3making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.

  • Heb 7:18
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    18The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless,

  • Gal 2:19
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    19For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ.

  • Eph 4:24
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    24and to put on the new self, which is created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

  • Rom 8:2-3
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    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.

    3For what the law could not do, weakened as it was by the flesh, God did. By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as a sin offering, He condemned sin in the flesh.

  • Rom 7:6
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    6But now we have been released from the law, having died to what once bound us, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

  • Gal 5:14
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    14For the entire law is fulfilled in one statement: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

  • Col 3:13
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    13Bear with one another and forgive one another if anyone has a grievance against another. Just as the Lord forgave you, so also you must forgive.

  • Rom 14:19
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    19So then, let us pursue what promotes peace and what builds up one another.

  • Eph 2:1
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    1And you were dead in your transgressions and sins.

  • Gal 3:15
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    15Brothers and sisters, let me take an example from everyday life: Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly ratified, so it is in this case.

  • Gal 3:28
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    28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

  • Rom 5:1
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    1Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Acts 15:9
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    9He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

  • Eph 1:23
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    23which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

  • Gal 2:16
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    16yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. So we also have believed in Christ Jesus in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

  • Rom 7:4
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    4Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—in order that we might bear fruit for God.

  • Col 1:14
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    14in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

  • Eph 1:20
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    20which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,

  • Eph 4:32
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    32Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.

  • Col 3:15
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    15Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which you were also called in one body. And be thankful.

  • 2 Cor 5:21
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    21God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

  • Heb 8:13
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    13By calling this covenant 'new,' he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.