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Aug 6, 2024 · Answer. In Ephesians 2:11–18, the apostle Paul explained part of Christ’s mission of peace, specifically, to reconcile and bind Jews and Gentiles into one people, one united community of believers—the body of Christ. Jesus “Himself is our peace,” declared Paul (Ephesians 2:14, NKJV). For centuries, the Jewish people looked down on the ...
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2 Corinthians 5:20. Verse Concepts. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. Ephesians 2:14. Verse Concepts. For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, Ephesians 2:16.
Verse 14. - For he is our peace. Explanatory of the preceding verse - of the way by which we are brought nigh. Christ is not only our Peacemaker, but our Peace, and that in the fullest sense, the very substance and living spring of it, establishing it at the beginning, keeping it up to the end; and the complex notion of peace is here not only peace between Jew and Gentile, but between God and ...
Christ Our Peace. 14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, 15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one () new man from the two, thus making peace, 16 and that He might () reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby ...
Paul continues to describe how a saving faith in Christ changes our spiritual status. Jesus does not simply give peace; He is peace. It is because of who He is and what He has done on the cross, through the outpouring of His blood (Ephesians 2:13) that we can be at peace with God (Romans 5:1).
Oct 16, 2020 · Jesus: The Person of Peace (Ephesians 2:14) 8 min read. Our lives will experience uncertainty, turmoil, difficulty, and hardship. Yet Jesus promises that we can live a life of joy and peace, regardless of what we may face. We must remember that peace is more than a feeling or emotion, rather, peace is a Person (Jesus).
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Our peace (ἡ εἰρήνη ἡμῶν) Christ is similarly described in abstract terms in 1 Corinthians 1:30; wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, redemption. So Colossians 1:27, hope of glory. Christ is thus not merely our peace-maker, but our very peace itself. Both (τὰ ἀμφότερα) Lit., the both.
