Ephesians 2:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

the enmity in his flesh, the law of the commands in ordinances having done away, that the two he might create in himself into one new man, making peace,

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  • Col 2:14 : 14 having blotted out the handwriting in the ordinances that is against us, that was contrary to us, and he hath taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;
  • Col 2:20 : 20 If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?
  • Col 3:10 : 10 and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;
  • Gal 3:28 : 28 there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;
  • Gal 6:15 : 15 for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation;
  • Eph 4:16 : 16 from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.
  • Col 1:21-22 : 21 And you -- once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile, 22 in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,
  • 2 Cor 5:17 : 17 so that if any one `is' in Christ -- `he is' a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.
  • Gal 3:10 : 10 for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed `is' every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law -- to do them,'
  • Heb 7:16 : 16 who came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,
  • Heb 8:13 : 13 in the saying `new,' He hath made the first old, and what doth become obsolete and is old `is' nigh disappearing.
  • Heb 9:9-9 : 9 which `is' a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to make perfect him who is serving, 10 only in victuals, and drinks, and different baptisms, and fleshly ordinances -- till the time of reformation imposed upon `them'.
  • Heb 9:23 : 23 `It is' necessary, therefore, the pattern indeed of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these;
  • Heb 10:1-9 : 1 For the law having a shadow of the coming good things -- not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near, 2 since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified? 3 but in those `sacrifices' is a remembrance of sins every year, 4 for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 5 Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, `Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me, 6 in burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offerings, Thou didst not delight, 7 then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;' 8 saying above -- `Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering Thou didst not will, nor delight in,' -- which according to the law are offered -- 9 then he said, `Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;' he doth take away the first that the second he may establish; 10 in the which will we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once,
  • Heb 10:19-22 : 19 Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus, 20 which way he did initiate for us -- new and living, through the vail, that is, his flesh -- 21 and a high priest over the house of God, 22 may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;

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    16 and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity in it,

    17 and having come, he did proclaim good news -- peace to you -- the far-off and the nigh,

    18 because through him we have the access -- we both -- in one Spirit unto the Father.

    19 Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

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    11 Wherefore, remember, that ye `were' once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,

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    13 and now, in Christ Jesus, ye being once afar off became nigh in the blood of the Christ,

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    13 And you -- being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh -- He made alive together with him, having forgiven you all the trespasses,

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    20 and through him to reconcile the all things to himself -- having made peace through the blood of his cross -- through him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens.

    21 And you -- once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile,

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    9 Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

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    10 and ye are in him made full, who is the head of all principality and authority,

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    17 so that if any one `is' in Christ -- `he is' a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

    18 And the all things `are' of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and did give to us the ministration of the reconciliation,

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