Ephesians 2:15

Geneva Bible (1560)

In abrogating through his flesh the hatred, that is, the Lawe of commandements which standeth in ordinances, for to make of twaine one newe man in himselfe, so making peace,

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  • Col 2:14 : 14 And putting out the hand writing of ordinances that was against vs, which was contrarie to vs, hee euen tooke it out of the way, and fastened it vpon the crosse,
  • Col 2:20 : 20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ fro the ordinances of the world, why, as though ye liued in ye world, are ye burdened with traditions?
  • Col 3:10 : 10 And haue put on the newe, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him,
  • Gal 3:28 : 28 There is neither Iewe nor Grecian: there is neither bonde nor free: there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Iesus.
  • Gal 6:15 : 15 For in Christ Iesus neither circumcision auaileth any thing, nor vncircumcision, but a newe creature.
  • Eph 4:16 : 16 By whome al the body being coupled and knit together by euery ioynt, for ye furniture therof (according to the effectual power, which is in the measure of euery part) receiueth increase of the body, vnto the edifying of itselfe in loue.
  • Col 1:21-22 : 21 And you which were in times past strangers and enemies, because your mindes were set in euill workes, hath he nowe also reconciled, 22 In that body of his flesh through death, to make you holy, and vnblameable and without fault in his sight,
  • 2 Cor 5:17 : 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, let him be a newe creature. Olde things are passed away: beholde, all things are become newe.
  • Gal 3:10 : 10 For as many as are of the workes of the Lawe, are vnder the curse: for it is written, Cursed is euery man that continueth not in all things, which are written in the booke of the Law, to doe them.
  • Heb 7:16 : 16 Which is not made Priest after the Law of the carnal commandement, but after the power of the endlesse life.
  • Heb 8:13 : 13 In that he saith a new Testament, he hath abrogate the olde: nowe that which is disanulled and waxed olde, is ready to vanish away.
  • Heb 9:9-9 : 9 Which was a figure for that present time, wherein were offred gifts and sacrifices that could not make holy, concerning the conscience, him that did the seruice, 10 Which only stood in meates and drinkes, and diuers washings, and carnal rites, which were inioyned, vntill the time of reformation.
  • Heb 9:23 : 23 It was then necessary, that the similitudes of heauenly things should be purified with such things: but the heauenly things them selues are purified with better sacrifices then are these.
  • Heb 10:1-9 : 1 For the Lawe hauing the shadowe of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can neuer with those sacrifices, which they offer yeere by yeere continually, sanctifie the commers thereunto. 2 For would they not then haue ceased to haue bene offered, because that the offerers once purged, should haue had no more conscience of sinnes? 3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance againe of sinnes euery yeere. 4 For it is vnpossible that the blood of bulles and goates should take away sinnes. 5 Wherefore when he commeth into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offring thou wouldest not: but a body hast thou ordeined me. 6 In burnt offerings, and sinne offrings thou hast had no pleasure. 7 Then I sayd, Lo, I come (In the beginning of the booke it is written of me) that I should doe thy will, O God. 8 Aboue, when he sayd, Sacrifice and offring, and burnt offrings, and sinne offrings thou wouldest not haue, neither hadst pleasure therein (which are offered by the Lawe) 9 Then sayd he, Lo, I come to doe thy wil, O God, he taketh away the first, that he may stablish the second. 10 By the which wil we are sanctified, euen by the offring of the body of Iesus Christ once made.
  • Heb 10:19-22 : 19 Seeing therefore, brethren, that by the blood of Iesus we may be bolde to enter into the Holy place, 20 By the newe and liuing way, which hee hath prepared for vs, through the vaile, that is, his flesh: 21 And seeing we haue an hie Priest, which is ouer the house of God, 22 Let vs drawe neere with a true heart in assurance of faith, our hearts being pure from an euill conscience,

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  • Eph 2:16-19
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    16 And that he might reconcile both vnto God in one body by his crosse, and slay hatred thereby,

    17 And came, and preached peace to you which were afarre off, & to them that were neere.

    18 For through him we both haue an entrance vnto the Father by one Spirit.

    19 Nowe therefore ye are no more strangers and forreiners: but citizens with the Saintes, and of the houshold of God,

  • Eph 2:11-14
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    11 Wherefore remember that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, and called vncircumcision of them, which are called circumcision in the flesh, made with hands,

    12 That ye were, I say, at that time without Christ, and were alients from the common wealth of Israel, and were strangers from the couenants of promise, and had no hope, and were without God in the world.

    13 But nowe in Christ Iesus, ye which once were farre off, are made neere by the blood of Christ.

    14 For he is our peace, which hath made of both one, and hath broken the stoppe of the partition wall,

  • Col 2:13-15
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    13 And you which were dead in sinnes, and in the vncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, forgiuing you all your trespasses,

    14 And putting out the hand writing of ordinances that was against vs, which was contrarie to vs, hee euen tooke it out of the way, and fastened it vpon the crosse,

    15 And hath spoyled the Principalities, and Powers, & hath made a shew of them openly, and hath triumphed ouer them in the same crosse.

  • Col 1:20-22
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    20 And through peace made by that blood of that his crosse, to reconcile to himselfe through him, through him, I say, all thinges, both which are in earth, and which are in heauen.

    21 And you which were in times past strangers and enemies, because your mindes were set in euill workes, hath he nowe also reconciled,

    22 In that body of his flesh through death, to make you holy, and vnblameable and without fault in his sight,

  • 10 That in the dispensation of the fulnesse of the times, he might gather together in one all things, both which are in heauen, and which are in earth, euen in Christ:

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    9 Lie not one to another, seeing that yee haue put off the olde man with his workes,

    10 And haue put on the newe, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him,

    11 Where is neither Grecian nor Iewe, circumcision nor vncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond, free: But Christ is all, and in all things.

  • Col 2:10-11
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    10 And yee are complete in him, which is the head of all principalitie and power.

    11 In whome also yee are circumcised with circumcision made without handes, by putting off the sinfull body of the flesh, through the circumcision of Christ,

  • 20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ fro the ordinances of the world, why, as though ye liued in ye world, are ye burdened with traditions?

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    16 Wherefore, henceforth know we no man after the flesh, yea though wee had knowen Christ after the flesh, yet nowe henceforth know we him no more.

    17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, let him be a newe creature. Olde things are passed away: beholde, all things are become newe.

    18 And all things are of God, which hath reconciled vs vnto himselfe by Iesus Christ, and hath giuen vnto vs the ministerie of reconciliation.

    19 For God was in Christ, and reconciled the world to himselfe, not imputing their sinnes vnto them, and hath committed to vs the word of reconciliation.

  • 15 For in Christ Iesus neither circumcision auaileth any thing, nor vncircumcision, but a newe creature.

  • 3 Endeuouring to keepe the vnitie of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

  • 18 For the commaundement that went afore, is disanulled, because of the weakenes thereof, and vnprofitablenes.

  • 19 For I through the Lawe am dead to the Lawe, that I might liue vnto God.

  • 24 And put on ye new man, which after God is created vnto righteousnes, and true holines.

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    2 For the Lawe of the Spirite of life, which is in Christ Iesus, hath freed mee from the lawe of sinne and of death.

    3 For (that that was impossible to ye Lawe, in as much as it was weake, because of ye flesh) God sending his owne Sonne, in ye similitude of sinful flesh, & for sinne, condened sinne in the flesh,

  • 6 But now we are deliuered from the Lawe, he being dead in whom we were holden, that we should serue in newnesse of Spirite, and not in the oldnesse of the letter.

  • 14 For all the Lawe is fulfilled in one worde, which is this, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe.

  • 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiuing one another, if any man haue a quarel to another: euen as Christ forgaue, euen so doe ye.

  • 19 Let vs then followe those things which concerne peace, and wherewith one may edifie another.

  • 1 And you hath he quickened, that were dead in trespasses and sinnes,

  • 15 Brethren, I speake as men do: though it be but a mans couenant, when it is confirmed, yet no man doeth abrogate it, or addeth any thing thereto.

  • 28 There is neither Iewe nor Grecian: there is neither bonde nor free: there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Iesus.

  • 1 Then being iustified by faith, we haue peace toward God through our Lord Iesus Christ.

  • 9 And he put no difference betweene vs and them, after that by faith he had purified their heartes.

  • 23 Which is his body, euen the fulnesse of him that filleth all in all things.

  • 16 Knowe that a man is not iustified by the works of the Law, but by ye faith of Iesus Christ, euen we, I say, haue beleeued in Iesus Christ, that we might be iustified by the faith of Christ, & not by the workes of the Lawe, because that by the workes of the Lawe, no flesh shalbe iustified.

  • 4 So yee, my brethren, are dead also to the Law by ye body of Christ, that ye should be vnto an other, euen vnto him that is raised vp from the dead, that we should bring foorth fruite vnto God.

  • 14 In whome we haue redemption through his blood, that is, the forgiuenesse of sinnes,

  • 20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his right hand in the heauenly places,

  • 32 Be ye courteous one to another, & tender hearted, freely forgiuing one another, euen as God for Christes sake, freely forgaue you.

  • 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which ye are called in one body, and be ye thankfull.

  • 21 For he hath made him to be sinne for vs, which knewe no sinne, that we should be made the righteousnesse of God in him.

  • 13 In that he saith a new Testament, he hath abrogate the olde: nowe that which is disanulled and waxed olde, is ready to vanish away.