Bible Strands
Ephesians 2:15
by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Paul writes to the Ephesians, mid-argument that Christ has dissolved the barrier between Jew and Gentile.
The words — Kataergēsas (καταργήσας), "having rendered inoperative," is the verb that does the work here; it carries the sense of making something void or null, not merely setting aside.
The thread — Colossians 2:14 echoes the same move: the decrees (dogmata) that stood against believers were canceled and nailed to the cross.
Why it lands — The law's function as a dividing mechanism is declared finished; the reader is to stop treating it as a boundary and to live in the one new man Christ produced.
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The Greek words
King James Version
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;
Cross-references
- Colossians 2:14 having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!
- Galatians 3:10 All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
- Colossians 1:21 Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.
- Hebrews 8:13 By speaking of a new covenant, He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.
- Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Galatians 6:15 For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.
- Colossians 2:20 If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:
- Colossians 3:10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
- 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
- Ephesians 4:16 From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.