birth and called "uncircumcised" by those who called themselves the circumcisions", that done in the body by the hands of men. 12 remember that at that time, you were separate from Christ, excluded from the citizenship of Isreal, foreigners to the convenants of promise. 13. now by Christ Jesus, you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. 14. For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15 by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations, his purpose was to create in him a new man out of two, thus making peace, 16 and by this one body, he reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death the hostility. 17 he came and preached peace to you who were far away and to those who were near, 18 for through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. 19. Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizen with God's people and members of God's household, 20 build on the foundation of apostles and prophets , with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone, 21. in him the whole building is jointed together and rised up to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22 in him, you are being building to become a dewelling in which God lives by his spirit.