Ephesians 2:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁵ having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the twain one new man, so making peace;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ By abolishing in His [own crucified] flesh the enmity [caused by] the Law with its decrees and ordinances [which He annulled]; that He from the two might create in Himself one new man [one new quality of humanity out of the two], so making peace.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ 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;

Common English Bible

¹⁵ He canceled the detailed rules of the Law so that he could create one new person out of the two groups, making peace.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ emptying the law of commandments by decree, so that he might join these two, in himself, into one new man, making peace

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ Making void the law of commandments contained in decrees; that he might make the two in himself into one new man, making peace;

Ephesians 2:15 Cross References

Isaiah 9:6

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.

Galatians 3:10

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one which continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.

Galatians 3:28

There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female: for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 6:15

For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 2:14

For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition,

Ephesians 2:16

and might reconcile them both in one body unto God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

Ephesians 4:16

from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.

Colossians 2:14

having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

Colossians 2:20

If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,

Colossians 3:10

and have put on the new man, which is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him:

Colossians 3:11

where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman: but Christ is all, and in all.

Colossians 3:15

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful.

Hebrews 7:16

who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life:

Hebrews 8:13

In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.

Hebrews 9:23

It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.