Ephesians 2:12

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Genesis 15:18

On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Great River, the Euphrates,

2 Chronicles 15:3

For a long time Israel was without a true God, without a priest-teacher, without instruction,

Ezra 4:3

But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of ancestral houses of Israel answered them, “It is not your responsibility to build with us a house for our God, but we alone must build it for the Lord, the God of Israel, as Cyrus king of Persia has commanded us.”

Exodus 12:45

But no tenant or hired worker may eat of it.

Isaiah 14:1

But the Lord will take pity on Jacob and again choose Israel, and will settle them on their own land; foreigners will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 44:6

Thus says the Lord, Israel’s king, its redeemer, the Lord of hosts: I am the first, I am the last; there is no God but me.

Isaiah 45:20

Come and assemble, gather together, you fugitives from among the nations! They are without knowledge who bear wooden idols and pray to gods that cannot save.

Isaiah 61:5

Strangers shall stand ready to pasture your flocks, foreigners shall be your farmers and vinedressers.

Jeremiah 14:8

Hope of Israel, Lord, our savior in time of need! Why should you be a stranger in the land, like a traveler stopping only for a night?

Jeremiah 17:13

O Hope of Israel, Lord! all who forsake you shall be put to shame; The rebels shall be enrolled in the netherworld; they have forsaken the Lord, source of living waters.

Ezekiel 13:9

My hand is against the prophets who see false visions and who make lying divinations. They shall not belong to the community of my people. They shall not be written in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter the land of Israel. Thus you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 37:26

I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them. I will multiply them and put my sanctuary among them forever.

Ezekiel 47:22

You shall allot it as heritage for yourselves and for the resident aliens in your midst who have fathered children among you. You shall treat them like native Israelites; along with you they shall receive a heritage among the tribes of Israel.

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites will remain many days without king or prince, Without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ephod or household gods.

Numbers 18:19

As a perpetual due I assign to you and to your sons and daughters with you all the contributions of holy things which the Israelites set aside for the Lord; this is a covenant of salt to last forever before the Lord, for you and for your descendants with you.

Luke 1:72

to show mercy to our fathers and to be mindful of his holy covenant

John 10:16

I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. These also I must lead, and they will hear my voice, and there will be one flock, one shepherd.

John 15:5

I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing.

John 4:22

You people worship what you do not understand; we worship what we understand, because salvation is from the Jews.

Acts 2:39

For the promise is made to you and to your children and to all those far off, whomever the Lord our God will call.”

Acts 28:20

This is the reason, then, I have requested to see you and to speak with you, for it is on account of the hope of Israel that I wear these chains.”

Acts 3:25

You are the children of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors when he said to Abraham, ‘In your offspring all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

Romans 9:8

This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.

Galatians 4:8

At a time when you did not know God, you became slaves to things that by nature are not gods;

Ephesians 2:19

So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones and members of the household of God,

Ephesians 4:18

darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance, because of their hardness of heart,

Colossians 1:21

And you who once were alienated and hostile in mind because of evil deeds

Colossians 1:27

to whom God chose to make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; it is Christ in you, the hope for glory.

Colossians 1:5

because of the hope reserved for you in heaven. Of this you have already heard through the word of truth, the gospel,

1 Thessalonians 4:13

We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, about those who have fallen asleep, so that you may not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in lustful passion as do the Gentiles who do not know God;

2 Thessalonians 2:16

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting encouragement and good hope through his grace,

1 Timothy 1:1

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,

Hebrews 11:34

put out raging fires, escaped the devouring sword; out of weakness they were made powerful, became strong in battle, and turned back foreign invaders.

Hebrews 6:18

so that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to hold fast to the hope that lies before us.

Hebrews 8:6

Now he has obtained so much more excellent a ministry as he is mediator of a better covenant, enacted on better promises. Old and New Covenants.

1 Peter 1:21

who through him believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. Mutual Love.

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy gave us a new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 Peter 3:15

but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts. Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope,

1 John 3:3

Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure, as he is pure. Avoiding Sin.