that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Ephesians 2:12 in context
Ephesians 2:9–15
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not of works, that no one would boast.
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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
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Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision” (in the flesh, made by hands),
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that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
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But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.
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For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,
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having 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,
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