- 所以你们应当记念,你们从前按肉体是外邦人,是称为没受割礼的,这名原是那些凭人手在肉身上称为受割礼之人所起的。
- 那时你们与基督无关,在以色列国民以外,在所应许的诸约上是局外人。并且活在世上没有指望,没有神。
- 你们从前远离神的人,如今却在基督耶稣里,靠着他的血,已经得亲近了。
- 因他使我们和睦,(原文作因他是我们的和睦)将两下合而为一,拆毁了中间隔断的墙。
- 而且以自己的身体,废掉冤仇,就是那记在律法上的规条。为要将两下,藉着自己造成一个新人,如此便成就了和睦。
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- Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called "uncircumcised" by those who call themselves "the circumcision" (that done in the body by the hands of men)--
- remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
- But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
- For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility,
- by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace,
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