17He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.


In Context

14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,

15 having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;

16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.

17 He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.

18 For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

Ephesians 2:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:17And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:17He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:17And coming, he preached peace to you that were afar off, and peace to them that were nigh.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:17and he came and preached peace to you that were far off, and peace to them that were nigh:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:17and, coming, he has preached the glad tidings of peace to you who were afar off, and the glad tidings of peace to those who were nigh.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:17and he came and preached peace to you that were far off, and peace to them that were nigh:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:17And came and preached peace to you who were afar off, and to them that were nigh.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:17and having come, he did proclaim good news — peace to you — the far-off and the nigh,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:17And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were near.