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Ephesians 2:14 KJV
Ephesians · chapter 2 · verse 14
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;Ephesians 2:14 · King James Version
Ephesians 2:14 in context
12That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
13But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
14For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
15Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
16And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
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- peaceeirēnēa state of national tranquillity, exemption from the rage and havoc of war, peace between…G1515 →
- madepoieōto make, with the names of things made, to produce, construct, form, fashion, etc., to be…G4160 →
- wallmesotoichona partition wallG3320 →
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We have now come to the last part of the chapter, which contains an account of the great and mighty privileges that converted Jews and Gentiles both receive from Christ. The apostle here shows that those who were in a state of enmity are reconciled. Between the Jews and the Gentiles there had been a great enmity;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-22