Ephesians 2:12

Modern King James Version

and that at that time you 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.

Cross References

Genesis 15:18

In the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, I have given this land to your seed, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

2 Chronicles 15:3

And for a long time Israel had been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

Ezra 4:3

But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said to them, You have nothing to do with us to build a house to our God. But we ourselves together will build to Jehovah, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.

Exodus 12:45

A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.

Isaiah 14:1

For Jehovah will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel and set them in their own land; and the stranger shall be joined with them, and they shall cling to the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 44:6

So says Jehovah, the King of Israel, and His redeemer Jehovah of Hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and besides Me there is no God.

Isaiah 45:20

Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, escaped ones of the nations; those who set up the wood of their graven image, and those that pray to a god that cannot save. They know nothing.

Isaiah 61:5

And strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the stranger will 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 traveler turning in to lodge?

Jeremiah 17:13

O Jehovah, the Hope of Israel, all who forsake You shall be ashamed. Those who depart from Me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the Fountain of living waters.

Ezekiel 13:9

And My hand shall be against the prophets who see vanity and who divine a lie. They shall not be in the council of My people, nor shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.

Ezekiel 37:26

And I will cut 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 forever.

Ezekiel 47:22

And it will be, you shall make it fall by lot for an inheritance to yourselves, and to the strangers who live among you, who shall father sons among you. And they shall be to you as native-born among the sons of Israel. They shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.

Hosea 3:4

For the sons of Israel shall live many days with no king, and no ruler, and with no sacrifice, and no pillars, and no ephod, or teraphim.

Numbers 18:19

All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the sons of Israel offer to Jehovah, I have given you and your sons and your daughters with you, by a law forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before Jehovah 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

And I have other sheep who are not of this fold. I must also lead those, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be one flock, one Shepherd.

John 15:5

I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, the same brings forth 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 those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Acts 28:20

For this cause, then, I called for you, to see and to speak with you. For I have this chain around me 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 kindreds of the earth be blessed."

Romans 9:8

That is, not the children of the flesh are children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for a seed.

Galatians 4:8

But then, indeed, not knowing God, you served as slaves to those not by nature being gods.

Ephesians 2:19

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

Ephesians 4:18

having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.

Colossians 1:21

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

Colossians 1:27

For to them God would make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

Colossians 1:5

for the hope which is laid up for you in Heaven, of which you heard before 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 be not grieved, even as others who have no hope.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

(not in the passion of lust, even as the nations who do not know God),

2 Thessalonians 2:16

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

1 Timothy 1:1

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to 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 fight, turned to flight the armies of the strangers.

Hebrews 6:18

so that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us,

Hebrews 8:6

But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much He is also the Mediator of a better covenant, which was built upon better promises.

1 Peter 1:21

those believing in God through Him, He 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 great mercy has regenerated us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 Peter 3:15

but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason of the hope in you, with meekness and fear;

1 John 3:3

And everyone who has this hope on him purifies himself, even as that One is pure.