and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He extinguished their hostility.
Parallel translations
- WEB and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.
- KJV And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
- NKJV and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.
- NASB and that He might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the hostility.
- NLT Together as one body, Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of his death on the cross, and our hostility toward each other was put to death.
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Quick answer
Through the cross Christ reconciled both Jew and Gentile to God in one body, killing the hostility. It shows reconciliation with God and one another flowing from the cross.
Overview
The cross accomplishes a double reconciliation: it joins Jew and Gentile 'in one body' and reconciles them 'to God.' Christ 'killed the hostility' — both the enmity between peoples and the enmity against God. Peace with God and peace among God's people are inseparably won at Calvary.
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- Col 1:20–22and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.
- Rom 5:10For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!
- 2 Cor 5:18–21All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
- Col 2:14having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!
- 1 Pet 4:1–2Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.
- Gal 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
- Rom 8:3For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
- Rom 6:6We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
- Rom 8:7because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
- Eph 2:15by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace
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