9. it is not by works, so that no one should boast.
10. For we are His workmanship, created in Messiah יהושע unto good works, which Elohim prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
11. Therefore remember that you, once gentiles in the flesh, who are called ‘the uncircumcision’ by what is called ‘the circumcision’ made in the flesh by hands,
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.