11 Therefore, keep in mind that once you—Gentiles in the flesh—were called “uncircumcision” by those called “circumcision” (which is performed on flesh by hand).
12 At that time you were separate from Messiah, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
13 But now in Messiah Yeshua, you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.
14 For He is our shalom, the One who made the two into one and broke down the middle wall of separation. Within His flesh He made powerless the hostility—
15 the law code of mitzvot contained in regulations. He did this in order to create within Himself one new man from the two groups, making shalom,
16 and to reconcile both to God in one body through the cross—by which He put the hostility to death.
17 And He came and proclaimed shalom to you who were far away and shalom to those who were near—