And although you were formerlyalienatedand hostilein mind,[engaged] in evildeeds,
[remember] that you were at that timeseparatefrom Christ,excludedfrom the commonwealthof Israel,and strangersto the covenantsof promise,havingnohopeand without Godin the world.
beingdarkenedin their understanding,excludedfrom the lifeof Godbecauseof the ignorancethat is in them, becauseof the hardnessof their heart;
So thenyou are no longerstrangersand aliens,but you are fellow citizenswith the saints,and are of God'shousehold,
slanderers,haters of God,insolent,arrogant,boastful,inventorsof evil,disobedientto parents,
You adulteresses,do you not knowthat friendshipwith the worldis hostilitytoward God?Thereforewhoeverwishesto be a friendof the worldmakeshimself an enemyof God.
"I was also blamelesstoward Him, And I keptmyself from my iniquity.
by abolishingin His fleshthe enmity,[which is] the Lawof commandments[contained] in ordinances,sothat in HimselfHe might makethe twointo onenewman,[thus] establishingpeace,
in orderto layholdof the heartsof the houseof Israelwhoare estrangedfrom Me through alltheir idols."'
