10 For we are God’s handiwork,(A) created(B) in Christ Jesus to do good works,(C) which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Jew and Gentile Reconciled Through Christ

11 Therefore, remember that formerly(D) you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)(E) 12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners(F) to the covenants of the promise,(G) without hope(H) and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once(I) were far away have been brought near(J) by the blood of Christ.(K)

14 For he himself is our peace,(L) who has made the two groups one(M) and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15 by setting aside in his flesh(N) the law with its commands and regulations.(O) His purpose was to create in himself one(P) new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, 16 and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross,(Q) by which he put to death their hostility.

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