Ephesians 2:12

Modern English Version

were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world.

Cross References

Genesis 15:18

On that same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great Euphrates River —

2 Chronicles 15:3

For a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law,

Ezra 4:3

But Zerubbabel, and Joshua, and the rest of the chiefs of the fathers’ households of Israel said to them, “This is not for you! It is for us to build the temple of our God, so we ourselves together will build unto the Lord God of Israel, as Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”

Exodus 12:45

A foreigner or a hired servant shall not eat it.

Isaiah 14:1

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. Then the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 44:6

Thus says the Lord the King of Israel, and his Redeemer the Lord of Hosts: I am the First, and I am the Last; besides Me there is no God.

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you fugitives of the nations. They have no knowledge who set up the wood of their carved image, and pray to a god that cannot save.

Isaiah 61:5

Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the foreigner shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

Jeremiah 14:8

O the Hope of Israel, its Savior in time of trouble, why should You be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to pitch his tent for a night?

Jeremiah 17:13

O  Lord, the Hope of Israel, all who forsake You will be ashamed. “Those who forsake Me will be written in the dust, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters.”

Ezekiel 13:9

Thus My hand shall be against the prophets who see vanity and who divine lies. They shall not have a place in the council of My people, nor shall they be written in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter the land of Israel so that you may know that I am the Lord God.

Ezekiel 37:26

Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will place them and multiply them and will set My sanctuary in their midst forevermore.

Ezekiel 47:22

It shall come to pass that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance among yourselves and among the foreigners who sojourn among you, who shall bear sons among you. And they shall be to you as born in the country among the Israelites. They shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites will remain many days without a king and without a prince, without a sacrifice and without a standing stone, and without an ephod and teraphim.

Numbers 18:19

All the offerings of the holy things which the Israelites offer to the Lord I have given to you, and to your sons and your daughters with you, as an eternal statute. It is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord, to you and to your seed with you.

Luke 1:72

to perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,

John 10:16

I have other sheep who are not of this fold. I must also bring them, and they will hear My voice. There will be one flock and one shepherd.

John 15:5

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit. For without Me you can do nothing.

John 4:22

You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.

Acts 2:39

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

Acts 28:20

For this reason I have asked to see you and speak with you, because I am bound with this chain for the hope of Israel.”

Acts 3:25

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’

Romans 9:8

So those who are the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.

Galatians 4:8

Previously, when you did not know God, you served those who by nature are not gods.

Ephesians 2:19

Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

Ephesians 4:18

having their understanding darkened, excluded from the life of God through the ignorance that is within them, due to the hardness of their hearts.

Colossians 1:21

And you, who were formerly alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled

Colossians 1:27

To them God would make known what is the glorious riches of this mystery among the nations. It is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

Colossians 1:5

because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you have already heard in the word of the truth of the gospel,

1 Thessalonians 4:13

But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others who have no hope.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in lustful passion, even as the Gentiles who do not know God,

2 Thessalonians 2:16

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God our Father, who has loved us and has given us eternal consolation and good hope through grace,

1 Timothy 1:1

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the command of God our Savior, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, our hope,

Hebrews 11:34

quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in fighting, and turned the armies of foreign enemies to flight.

Hebrews 6:18

So that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.

Hebrews 8:6

But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, because He is the Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.

1 Peter 1:21

Through Him you believe in God who raised Him up from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 Peter 3:15

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to every man who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you, with gentleness and fear.

1 John 3:3

Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.