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Ephesians 2:12

The Text-Critical English New Testament

remember that you were apart from Christ at that time, excluded from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

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to deal mercifully with our fathers and to remember his holy covenant,

I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. And there will be one flock, one shepherd.

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.

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

For this promise is for you, for your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God calls to himself.”

That is why I have asked to see you and speak with you, for it is on account of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with our fathers when he said to Abraham, ‘In yoʋr offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of the promise are counted as descendants.

At that time, however, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods.

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

They are darkened in their understanding, being excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

At one time you were alienated from God and hostile in your minds because of your evil works. But now he has reconciled you

To them God resolved to make known how great among the Gentiles are the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

the faith and love that spring from the hope that is laid up for you in heaven. You have already heard about this hope in the message of the truth of the gospel

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who have fallen asleep, so that you may not be grieved like others who do not have hope.

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by his grace,

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

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong from weakness, became mighty in battle, and routed the armies of foreigners.

so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.

But as it is, the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to the old priesthood as the covenant he mediates is superior to the old covenant, since it has been enacted on better promises.

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

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to make a defense to anyone who asks you for an explanation of the hope you have within you, with gentleness and respect,

Everyone who places this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.




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