Ephesians 2:12

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Ephesians 2:12

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Summary

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:

Without

Aliens

Hebrews 11:34

The covenants

Having

General references

Exodus 12:45

Deuteronomy 15:15

Bible References

Without

And I have other sheep which are not of this field: I will be their guide in the same way, and they will give ear to my voice, so there will be one flock and one keeper.

I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.

And you, who in the past were cut off and at war with God in your minds through evil works, he has now made one

Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without the law;

The Lord, the King of Israel, even the Lord of armies who has taken up his cause, says, I am the first and the last, and there is no God but me.

Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.

For the children of Israel will for a long time be without king and without ruler, without offerings and without pillars, and without ephod or images.

Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:

And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything?

But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:

Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

Aliens

Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of families in Israel said to them, You have no part with us in the building of a house for our God; we ourselves will do the work together for the Lord, the God of Israel, as Cyrus, king of Persia, has given us orders.

And men from strange countries will be your herdsmen, and those who are not Israelites will be your ploughmen and vine-keepers.

And my hand will be against the prophets who see visions without substance and who make false use of secret arts: they will not be in the secret of my people, and they will not be recorded in the list of the children of Israel, and they will not come into the land of Israel; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.

Put out the power of fire, got safely away from the edge of the sword, were made strong when they had been feeble, became full of power in war, and put to flight the armies of the nations.

The covenants

In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

Then Moses came and put before the people all the words of the Lord and his laws: and all the people, answering with one voice, said, Whatever the Lord has said we will do.

All the lifted offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord, I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as a right for ever. This is an agreement made with salt before the Lord, to you and to your seed for ever.

I have made an agreement with the man of my selection, I have made an oath to David my servant;

See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah:

The Lord has said: If it is possible for my agreement of the day and the night to be broken, so that day and night no longer come at their fixed times,

And I will make an agreement of peace with them: it will be an eternal agreement with them: and I will have mercy on them and make their numbers great, and will put my holy place among them for ever.

To do acts of mercy to our fathers and to keep in mind his holy word,

You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.

Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God:

Now to Abraham were the undertakings given, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of a great number; but as of one, he says, And to your seed, which is Christ.

Having

O you hope of Israel, its saviour in time of trouble, why are you like one who is strange in the land, and like a traveller putting up his tent for a night?

O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who give you up will be put to shame; those who go away from you will be cut off from the earth, because they have given up the Lord, the fountain of living waters.

You give worship, but without knowledge of what you are worshipping: we give worship to what we have knowledge of: for salvation comes from the Jews.

But for this reason I sent for you, to see and have talk with you: for because of the hope of Israel I am in these chains.

Through the hope which is in store for you in heaven; knowledge of which was given to you before in the true word of the good news,

But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who had love for us and has given us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the order of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope;

So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,

But give honour to Christ in your hearts as your Lord; and be ready at any time when you are questioned about the hope which is in you, to give an answer in the fear of the Lord and without pride;

And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.

General references

A man from a strange country living among you, and a servant working for payment, may not take part in it.

And keep in mind that you yourself were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: so I give you this order today.