Daily Bible CEV February 19 Verses

United by Christ

¹¹Don't forget that you are Gentiles. In fact, you used to be called "uncircumcised" by those who take pride in being circumcised. ¹²At that time you did not know about Christ. You were foreigners to the people of Israel, and you had no part in the promises that God had made to them. You were living in this world without hope and without God, ¹³and you were far from God. But Christ offered his life's blood as a sacrifice and brought you near God.

¹⁴Christ has made peace between Jews and Gentiles, and he has united us by breaking down the wall of hatred that separated us. Christ gave his own body ¹⁵to destroy the Law of Moses with all its rules and commands. He even brought Jews and Gentiles together as though we were only one person, when he united us in peace. ¹⁶On the cross Christ did away with our hatred for each other. He also made peace between us and God by uniting Jews and Gentiles in one body. ¹⁷Christ came and preached peace to you Gentiles, who were far from God, and peace to us Jews, who were near God. ¹⁸And because of Christ, all of us can come to the Father by the same Spirit.

¹⁹You Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens with everyone else who belongs to the family of God. ²⁰You are like a building with the apostles and prophets as the foundation and with Christ as the most important stone. ²¹Christ is the one who holds the building together and makes it grow into a holy temple for the Lord. ²²And you are part of that building Christ has built as a place for God's own Spirit to live.

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