Ephesians 2:16 Cross References

Ephesians 2:16

16: Together as one body, Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of his death, and our hostility toward each other was put to death.

Colossians 1:20

  1. and by him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of his blood on the cross.
  2. This includes you who were once so far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions,
  3. yet now he has brought you back as his friends. He has done this through his death on the cross in his own human body. As a result, he has brought you into the very presence of God, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.

Romans 5:10

  1. For since we were restored to friendship with God by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be delivered from eternal punishment by his life.

Romans 8:3

  1. The law of Moses could not save us, because of our sinful nature. But God put into effect a different plan to save us. He sent his own Son in a human body like ours, except that ours are sinful. God destroyed sin's control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.

Colossians 2:14

  1. He canceled the record that contained the charges against us. He took it and destroyed it by nailing it to Christ's cross.

Galatians 2:20

  1. I myself no longer live, but Christ lives in me. So I live my life in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Ephesians 2:15

  1. By his death he ended the whole system of Jewish law that excluded the Gentiles. His purpose was to make peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in himself one new person from the two groups.

2 Corinthians 5:18

  1. All this newness of life is from God, who brought us back to himself through what Christ did. And God has given us the task of reconciling people to him.
  2. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people's sins against them. This is the wonderful message he has given us to tell others.
  3. We are Christ's ambassadors, and God is using us to speak to you. We urge you, as though Christ himself were here pleading with you, "Be reconciled to God!"
  4. For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.

1 Peter 4:1

  1. So then, since Christ suffered physical pain, you must arm yourselves with the same attitude he had, and be ready to suffer, too. For if you are willing to suffer for Christ, you have decided to stop sinning.
  2. And you won't spend the rest of your life chasing after evil desires, but you will be anxious to do the will of God.

Romans 8:7

  1. For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God's laws, and it never will.

Romans 6:6

  1. Our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.
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