Ephesians 2:15

World English Bible (2000)

having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;

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  • Col 2:14 : 14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;
  • Col 2:20 : 20 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
  • Col 3:10 : 10 and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
  • Gal 3:28 : 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
  • Gal 6:15 : 15 For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
  • Eph 4:16 : 16 from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
  • Col 1:21-22 : 21 You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works, 22 yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,
  • 2 Cor 5:17 : 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
  • Gal 3:10 : 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."
  • Heb 7:16 : 16 who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:
  • Heb 8:13 : 13 In that he says, "A new covenant," he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.
  • Heb 9:9-9 : 9 which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect; 10 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
  • Heb 9:23 : 23 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
  • Heb 10:1-9 : 1 For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near. 2 Or else wouldn't they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins? 3 But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins. 4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. 5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, but you prepared a body for me; 6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. 7 Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.'" 8 Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law), 9 then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first, that he may establish the second, 10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
  • Heb 10:19-22 : 19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21 and having a great priest over the house of God, 22 let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

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    16and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.

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

    18For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

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

  • Eph 2:11-14
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    11Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands);

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

    13But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

    14For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,

  • Col 2:13-15
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    13You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

    14wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

    15having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

  • Col 1:20-22
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    20and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

    21You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,

    22yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,

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    10to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;

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    9Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

    10and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

    11where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

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    10and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;

    11in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

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    20If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

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    16Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

    17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

    18But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;

    19namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

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    15For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

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    3being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

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    18For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

  • Gal 2:19
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    19For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

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    24and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

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    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

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    6But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

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    14For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

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    13bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

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    19So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

  • Eph 2:1
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    1You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

  • Gal 3:15
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    15Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.

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

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    1Being therefore 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.

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    16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

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    4Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

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

  • Eph 1:20
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    20which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

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    32And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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    15And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.

  • 2 Cor 5:21
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    21For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

  • Heb 8:13
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    13In that he says, "A new covenant," he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.