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Our Peace
      At  one  time  you  were  without  Christ,  being
      aliens  from  the  commonwealth  of  Israel,  and
      strangers  from  the  covenants  of  promise,
      having no hope, and without God in the world:

      but  now  in  Christ  Jesus  you  who  sometimes
      were  far  off,  are  made  close  by  the  blood  of
      Christ; for he is our peace, who has made
      both one, and has broken down the middle wall

      of partition between us.

      Having abolished in his flesh the hostility, even
      the  law  of  commandments  contained  in
      ordinances; for to make in himself of  the two

      one  new  man, so making peace;  so  that
      he might reconcile both unto God in one body
      by  the  cross,  having  slain  the  enmity thereby:
      and  came  and  preached  peace  to  you  which
      were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For

      through him we both have access by one Spirit
      unto  the  Father.  Now  you  are  no  more

      strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens
      with the saints, and of the household of God.

      Ephesians 2:12-19
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