Bible Passage Scripture Block

For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.

He [Jesus] is our peace, making us one by his flesh. The Old Law expressed in commandments that had separated us is abolished. In Him, we are one man in place of two, reconciled together to God in one body through the peace of the cross.

Paul is writing to the “saints that are in Ephesus” (1:1), but Gentile Christians in particular (2:11). He is reminding them of this grace that they have from God and the fact that they are now “fellow citizens…of the household of God” (2:19). Ultimately, his plea to them is to walk in a manner “worthy of the calling” (4:1).