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Ephesians 2:15

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;

KJV

τὴν ἔχθραν, ἐν τῇ σαρκὶ αὐτοῦ τὸν νόμον τῶν ἐντολῶν ἐν δόγμασιν καταργήσας, ἵνα τοὺς δύο κτίσῃ ἐν αὐτῷ εἰς ἕνα καινὸν ἄνθρωπον ποιῶν εἰρήνην,

Greek NT

legem mandatorum decretis evacuans, ut duos condat in semetipso in unum novum hominem, faciens pacem :

Vulgate

having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man, so making peace;

ASV

Making void the law of commandments contained in decrees: that he might make the two in himself into one new man, making peace

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δόγμα
dogma
noun · 5×
δύο
duo
adjective · 132×
εἰρήνη
eirene
noun · 90×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
εἷς
eis
adjective · 336×
καινός
kainos
adjective · 41×
καταργέω
katargeo
verb · 27×
κτίζω
ktizo
verb · 14×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
σάρξ
sarx
noun · 147×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἐντολή
entole
noun · 66×
ἔχθρα
echthra
noun · 6×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: αὑτῷ | WH: αὑτῷ | Treg/NA: αὐτῷ | NIV/RP: ἑαυτῷ
  • αὑτῷSBLGNT
  • αὑτῷWestcott-Hort
  • αὐτῷTregelles, Nestle-Aland 27
  • ἑαυτῷReader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Unless the flesh were to be saved, the Word would not have taken upon Him flesh of the same substance as ours: from this it would follow that neither should we have been reconciled by Him. 1. And inasmuch as the apostle has not pronounced against the very substance of flesh and blood, that it cannot inherit the kingdom of God, the same apostle has everywhere adopted the term fl…
1. A great matter, beloved, a great matter it is to preside over a Church: a matter needing wisdom and courage as great as that of which Christ speaks, that a man should lay down his life for the sheep, and never leave them deserted or naked; that he should stand against the wolf nobly. For in this the shepherd differs from the hireling; the one always looks to his own safety, …
2. This then is one way, and the first, by which he cast down their pride; the next has greater force. What then is this? In that he shows that not even this thing itself was in all points complete, but imperfect, and extremely so. And not only imperfect, but also injurious, unless there were another thing joined together with it. For having said that we have knowledge, he adde…
§29And first of all, by the death of our Redeemer, the New Testament took the place of the Old Law which had been abolished; then the Law of Christ together with its mysteries, enactments, institutions, and sacred rites was ratified for the whole world in the blood of Jesus Christ. For, while our Divine Savior was preaching in a restricted area - He was not sent but to the sheep t…
§32If we consider closely all these mysteries of the Cross, those words of the Apostle are no longer obscure, in which he teaches the Ephesians that Christ, by His blood, made the Jews and Gentiles one "breaking down the middle wall of partition...in his flesh" by which the two peoples were divided; and that He made the Old Law void "that He might make the two in Himself into one …
46. That to be called creatures, then, and to be created belongs to things which have by nature a created essence, these passages are sufficient to remind us, though Scripture is full of the like; on the other hand that the single word 'He created' does not simply denote the essence and mode of generation, David shows in the Psalm, 'This shall be written for another generation,…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 10:17 — For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
  • 2Cor 5:17 — Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
  • 2Cor 5:17 — Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
  • Col 1:21 — And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
  • Col 1:22 — In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
  • Col 2:14 — Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
  • Col 2:20 — Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
  • Col 2:20 — Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
  • Col 3:10 — And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
  • Col 3:10 — And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
  • Eph 2:14 — For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
  • Eph 2:16 — And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
  • Eph 4:16 — From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the
  • Eph 4:24 — And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
  • Gal 3:10 — For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
  • Gal 3:28 — There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
  • Gal 6:15 — For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
  • Heb 7:16 — Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
  • Heb 8:13 — In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
  • Heb 9:9 — Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
  • Heb 9:10 — Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
  • Heb 10:1 — For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
  • Heb 10:19 — Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
  • Rom 7:4 — Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto G