Ephesians 2:16

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and might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross, by which He put their hostility to death.

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  • Col 1:20-22 : 20 and 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. 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 5:18-21 : 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that 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. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
  • Eph 2:15 : 15 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,
  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
  • 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.
  • 1 Pet 4:1-2 : 1 Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body on our behalf, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body has ceased from sin. 2 As a result, you should no longer live the rest of your earthly life for human desires but instead for the will of God.
  • Rom 5:10 : 10 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
  • Rom 6:6 : 6 We know this: our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, and we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
  • Rom 8:3 : 3 For 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 8:7 : 7 Because the mindset of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.

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    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.

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    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.

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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,

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

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    23which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

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

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