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Cornerstone
      1  At  that  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  near  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 enmity, even the law  of

      commandments contained in ordinances; for to
      make in himself of the two, one new man, so
      making  peace;  and  that  he  might  reconcile
      both  to  God  in  one  body  by  the  cross,

      having  slain  the  enmity:  and  came  and
      preached peace to you which were afar off, and
      to them that were near.

      For through him we both have access by

      one Spirit to the Father. Now then you are
      no  more  strangers  and  foreigners,  but

      fellow  citizens  with  the  saints,  and  of  the
      household  of  God;  and  are  built  upon  the
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