Therefore remember that formerly you The Gentiles in the flesh-who are called "Uncircumcision" by the so-called "circumcision" that is Performed on the body by human hands Remember that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and Strangers to the covenants of promise, having No hope and without God in the world But now in Christ Jesus You who used to be far away You have been brought near By the blood of Christ For he is our peace, the one Who made both groups into one And who destroyed the middle wall Of partition, hostility When he nullified In his flesh the law Of commandments In decrees He did this to make In himself one new man Out of two Thus making peace And to reconcile them both In one body to God Through the cross, by which the hostility Has been killed When he nullified In his flesh the law Of commandments In decrees He did this to make In himself one new man Out of two Thus making peace