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Ephesians 2:16

WEB

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

KJV

16And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

BSB

16and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He extinguished their hostility.

FBV

16and completely reconcile both of them to God through the cross as if they were just one body, having destroyed our hostility towards each other.

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Extra References

Colossians 1:20-22

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


Romans 5:10

10For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.


2 Corinthians 5:18-21

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.

20We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 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.


Colossians 2:14

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


Ephesians 2:15

15having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,


Galatians 2:20

20I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.


1 Peter 4:1-2

1Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.


Romans 8:3

3For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,


Romans 8:7

7because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.


Romans 6:6

6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.