12. that at that time you were without Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Yisra’ĕl and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no expectation and without Elohim in the world.
13. But now in Messiah יהושע you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.
14. For He is our peace, who has made both one, and having broken down the partition of the barrier,
15. having abolished in His flesh the enmity – the Torah of the commands in dogma – so as to create in Himself one renewed man from the two, thus making peace,
16. and to completely restore to favour both of them unto Elohim in one body through the stake, having destroyed the enmity by it.
17. And having come, He brought as Good News peace to you who were far off, and peace to those near.
18. Because through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
19. So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the set-apart ones and members of the household of Elohim,
20. having been built upon the foundation of the emissaries and prophets, יהושע Messiah Himself being chief corner-stone,
21. in whom all the building, being joined together, grows into a set-apart Dwelling Place in יהוה,
22. in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of Elohim in the Spirit.