How Come London Can Be So Lonely?

¹⁴ For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, ¹⁵ by setting aside in his fleshthe law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, ¹⁶ and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. ¹⁷ He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. ¹⁸ For through him we both have access to the Fatherby one Spirit.

¹⁹ Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizenswith God’s people and also members of his household, ²⁰ built on the foundationof the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.²¹ In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy templein the Lord. ²² And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.