<t /><p class="bodytext">Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh &#8211; who are called &#8220;uncircumcision&#8221; by the so-called &#8220;circumcision&#8221; that is performed on the body<n id="1" /> by human hands &#8211;

among whom<n id="1" /> all of us<n id="2" /> also<n id="3" /> formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath<n id="4" /> even as the rest&#8230;<n id="5" />p>

For no one has ever hated his own body<n id="1" /> but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

<b><i>For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will becomei>b><n id="1" /> <i><b>one flesh.b>i><n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Slaves,<n id="1" /> obey your human masters<n id="2" /> with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart as to Christ,

when he nullified<n id="1" /> in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man<n id="2" /> out of two,<n id="3" /> thus making peace,

For our struggle<n id="1" /> is not against flesh and blood,<n id="2" /> but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness,<n id="3" /> against the spiritual forces<n id="4" /> of evil in the heavens.<n id="5" />