Ephesians 2:12 - Easy To Read Version

¹² Remember that in the past you were without Christ. You were not citizens of Israel. {\cf2\super [11]} And you did not have the agreements {\cf2\super [12]} with the promise \{that God made to his people\}. You had no hope, and you did not know God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² [Remember] that you were at that time separated (living apart) from Christ [excluded from all part in Him], utterly estranged and outlawed from the rights of Israel as a nation, and strangers with no share in the sacred compacts of the [Messianic] promise [with no knowledge of or right in God's agreements, His covenants]. And you had no hope (no promise); you were in the world without God.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Common English Bible

¹² At that time you were without Christ. You were aliens rather than citizens of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of God’s promise. In this world you had no hope and no God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² and that you were, in that time, without Christ, being foreign to the way of life of Israel, being visitors to the testament, having no hope of the promise, and being without God in this world.

Ephesians 2:12 Referencias Cruzadas

Galatians 4:8

In the past you did not know God. You were slaves to gods that were not real.

Colossians 1:21

At one time you were separated from God. You were God’s enemies in your minds, because the evil things you did were against God.

1 Peter 1:3

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God has great mercy, and because of his mercy he gave us a new life. This new life brings us a living hope through Jesus Christ’s rising from death.

1 Thessalonians 4:13

Brothers and sisters, we want you to know about those people who have died. We don’t want you to be sad like other people—people who have no hope.

Ephesians 4:18

Those people don’t understand. They know nothing, because they refuse to listen. So they cannot have the life that God gives.

Ezekiel 37:26

And I will make a peace agreement with them. This agreement will continue forever. I agree to give them their land. I agree to make them become many, many people. And I agree to put my holy place among them forever.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

Don’t let your physical desires control you. The people of the world who don’t know God do that.

John 15:5

“I am the vine and you are the branches. If a person continues in me and I continue in that person, then that person will make much fruit. But without me that person can do nothing.

Hebrews 6:18

Those two things cannot change. God cannot lie when he says something and he cannot lie when he makes a vow. So those things give great comfort to us who came to God for safety. Those two things give us comfort and strength to continue in the hope that God gives us.

Romans 9:8

This means that not all of Abraham’s descendants are God’s true children. Abraham’s true children are those people that become God’s children because of the promise God made to Abraham.

2 Chronicles 15:3

For a long time Israel was without the true God. And they were without a teaching priest, and without the law.

1 Peter 3:15

But you should keep the Lord Christ holy in your hearts. Always be ready to answer every person who asks you to explain about the hope you have.

Acts 28:20

That is why I wanted to see you and talk with you. I am bound with this chain because I believe in the hope of Israel. {\cf2\super [526]} ”

Acts 3:25

You have received the things the prophets talked about. You have received the agreement that God made with your fathers. {\cf2\super [59]} God said to your father Abraham, {\cf2\super [60]} ‘Every nation on earth will be blessed through your descendants. {\cf2\super [61]} ’ {\cf2\super [62]}

Jeremiah 17:13

Lord, you are the hope of Israel.\par Lord, you are like a spring of living water.\par If a person quits following the Lord,\par then his life will be very short. {\cf2\super [139]} \par

Genesis 15:18

So on that day, the Lord made a promise and an agreement with Abram. The Lord said, “I will give this land to your descendants. I will give them the land between the River of Egypt [88] and the great river Euphrates.

1 John 3:3

Christ is pure. And every person who has this hope in Christ keeps himself pure like Christ.

1 Peter 1:21

You believe in God through Christ. God raised Christ from death. Then God gave glory to him. So your faith and your hope are in God.

Hebrews 11:34

Some people stopped great fires, and other people were saved from being killed with swords. They did those things because they had faith. Weak people were made strong because of their faith. They became powerful in battle and defeated other armies.

1 Timothy 1:1

Greetings from Paul, an apostle {\cf2\super [1]} of Christ Jesus. I am an apostle by the command of God our Savior and Christ Jesus our hope.

Colossians 1:5

You have faith in Christ and love God’s people because of the hope you have. You know that the things you hope for are saved for you in heaven. You learned about this hope when you heard the true teaching, the Good News {\cf2\super [3]}

John 10:16

I have other sheep too. They are not in this flock here. I must lead them also. They will listen to my voice. In the future there will be one flock and one shepherd.

John 4:22

You Samaritans {\cf2\super [65]} worship something that you don’t understand. We Jews understand what we worship. Salvation comes from the Jews.

Luke 1:72

God said he would give mercy to our fathers. {\cf2\super [23]} \par And he remembered his holy promise.\par

Hosea 3:4

In the same way, the people of Israel will continue many days without a king or a leader. They will be without a sacrifice or a memorial stone. {\cf2\super [29]} They will be without an ephod {\cf2\super [30]} or a household god.

Ezekiel 13:9

The Lord says, “I will punish the prophets that saw false visions and told lies. I will remove them from my people. Their names won’t be in the list of the family of Israel. They will never again come to the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord and Master!

Jeremiah 14:8

God, you are the Hope of Israel!\par You save Israel in times of trouble.\par But now it seems like you are\par a stranger in the land.\par It seems like you are a traveler that only stays one night.\par

Isaiah 45:20

“You people have escaped from other nations. So gather together and come before me. (These people carry statues of false gods. These people pray to those useless gods. But the people don’t know what they are doing.

Isaiah 44:6

The Lord is the king of Israel. The Lord All-Powerful saves Israel. The Lord says, “I am the only God. There are no other gods. I am the Beginning and the End.

Ezra 4:3

But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the other family leaders of Israel answered, “No, you people can’t help us build a temple for our God. Only we can build the temple for the Lord. He is the God of Israel. This is what King Cyrus, the king of Persia, commanded us to do.”

Numbers 18:19

Anything that the people offer as holy gifts, I, the Lord, give to you. This is your share. I give it to you and your sons and your daughters. This law will continue forever. It is an agreement with the Lord that can’t be broken. [245] I make this promise to you and to your descendants. [246] ”

Isaiah 61:5

“Then your enemies will come to you and care for your sheep. The children of your enemies will work in your fields and in your gardens.

Isaiah 14:1

\{In the future,\} the Lord will again show his love to Jacob. The Lord will again choose the people of Israel. \{At that time,\} the Lord will give those people their land. Then non-Jewish people {\cf2\super [146]} will join themselves to the Jewish people. Both people will join and become one family—Jacob’s family.

Ezekiel 47:22

You will divide it as a property for yourselves and for the foreigners who live among you and who have had children among you. These foreigners will be residents—they will be like natural born Israelites. You will divide some land for them among the family groups of Israel.

Acts 2:39

This promise is for you. It is also for your children and for the people that are far away. It is for every person that the Lord our God calls to himself.”

Ephesians 2:19

So now you \{non-Jews\} are not visitors or strangers. Now you are citizens together with God’s holy people. {\cf2\super [14]} You belong to God’s family.

Hebrews 8:6

But the work that has been given to Jesus is much greater than the work that was given to those priests. In the same way, the new agreement {\cf2\super [85]} that Jesus brought from God to his people is much greater than the old one. And the new agreement is based on promises of better things.

Exodus 12:45

But if a person just lives in your country, or if a person is only hired to work for you, then that person must not eat the Passover. {Passover is for the people of Israel.}