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And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.

And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;

For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;

But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

That at that time ye 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:

Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Not of works, lest any man should boast.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.

But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.

Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.

And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.