Sentences with phrase «dividing walls of hostility»

The dividing walls of hostility are being broken down; forgiveness and mutuality are being learned; reconciliation and koinonia are being experienced as real possibilities and not mere ideals.

Gracious God, in Jesus Christ you teach us to love our neighbors, but we build dividing walls of hostility.

«For he is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility» Whenever Christians seriously grapple with the question of who should be included as full and equal partners in the commonwealth of the God and Father of Jesus Christ, Paul's words about Christ having «broken down...

'' [Jesus] himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations.

For he is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby bringing the hostility to an end.

For he is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of two, so making peace» (Eph.

The Apostle Paul in his letters, referred to this barrier not as the gates of hell, but as the dividing wall of hostility (Eph 2:14).

Acts shows that the dividing wall of hostility has been torn down.

In the midst of the walls of opposition erected by men stands Christ, who breaks down the «dividing wall of hostility» that separates us.

No greater charter of race equality need be cited than that found in Ephesians, «For he is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility» (2:14).