2:11 Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh – who are called “uncircumcision” by the so-called “circumcision” that is performed on the body ¹  by human hands – 2:12 that you were at that time without the Messiah, ²  alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, ³  having no hope and without God in the world. 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. ⁴  2:14 For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one ⁵  and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility, 2:15 when he nullified ⁶  in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man ⁷  out of two, ⁸  thus making peace, 2:16 and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed. ⁹