Ephesians 2:12
At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from citizenship in Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise. You had no hope and were in the world without God.
Galatians 4:8
However, in the past, when you did not know God, you were slaves to things that are not really gods at all.
Colossians 1:21
You who were once alienated with a hostile attitude, doing evil,
1 Thessalonians 4:13
But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve like other people who have no hope.
Ephesians 4:18
They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.
1 Thessalonians 4:5
not with passion and lust like the gentiles who do not know God.
Genesis 15:18
That very day the LORD made this covenant with Abram: "I'm giving this land to your descendants, from the river of Egypt to the great Euphrates River
Genesis 17:7-9
I'm establishing my covenant between me and you, and with your descendants who come after you, generation after generation, as an eternal covenant, to be your God and your descendants' God after you.
Exodus 24:3-11
Then Moses came and reported all the words of the LORD and all the statutes to the people, and they all answered with one voice, "We will do everything that the LORD has decreed."
Numbers 18:19
I'm giving you, your sons, and your daughters as a prescribed portion forever all the raised offerings of the consecrated things that the Israelis offer to the LORD. It's a salt covenant forever before the LORD with you and your descendants with you."
2 Chronicles 15:3
"Listen to me, Asa, Judah, and Benjamin! The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will allow you to find him, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you. Israel lived for years without the true God, priests to teach them, and the Law,
Ezra 4:3
But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of the families of Israel replied, "You have no part in our plans for building a temple to our God, because we alone will build to the LORD, the God of Israel, in accordance with the decree issued by King Cyrus, king of Persia."
Psalm 89:3-18
I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have made a promise to David, my servant.
Isaiah 44:6
This is what the LORD says, the King of Israel and its Redeemer the LORD of the Heavenly Armies is his name "I am the first and I am the last, and apart from me there is no God.
Isaiah 45:20
"Gather together and come; draw near and enter, your fugitives from the nations. Those who carry around their wooden idols know nothing, nor do those who keep praying to a god that cannot save.
Isaiah 61:5
Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will work your land and dress your vines.
Jeremiah 14:8
Hope of Israel, its deliverer in time of trouble, why are you like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who sets up his tent for a night?
Jeremiah 17:13
LORD, you are the hope of Israel; all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn aside from you will be written in the dust, because they have forsaken the LORD, the spring of living water.
Jeremiah 31:31-34
"Look, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I'll make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
Jeremiah 33:20-26
"This is what the LORD says: "If you could break my covenant with the day and night so that day and night wouldn't occur at the proper time,
Ezekiel 13:9
My hand will oppose the prophets who see false visions and speak deceptive divinations. They won't be included with the council of my people, nor will they be entered into the registry of Israel's house or enter Israel's land. Then you'll know that I am the Lord GOD,
Ezekiel 37:26
I'll make a secure covenant with them, one that will last forever. I will establish them, make them increase in population, and will place my sanctuary in their midst forever.
Hosea 3:4
Likewise, the people of Israel will dwell a long time without a king, without a prince, without sacrifice, without sacred pillars, and with neither ephod nor teraphim.
Luke 1:72
He has shown mercy to our ancestors and remembered his holy covenant,
John 4:22
You don't know what you're worshiping. We Jews know what we're worshiping, because salvation comes from the Jews.
John 10:16
I have other sheep that don't belong to this fold. I must lead these also, and they'll listen to my voice. So there will be one flock and one shepherd.
John 15:5
I am the vine, you are the branches. The one who abides in me while I abide in him produces much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.
Acts 3:25
You are the descendants of the prophets and the heirs of the covenant that God made with your ancestors when he told Abraham, "Through your descendant all the families of the earth will be blessed.'
Acts 14:15-16
"Men, why are you doing this? We are merely human beings with natures like yours. We are telling you the good news so you'll turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.
Acts 28:20
That's why I asked to see you and speak with you, since it is for the hope of Israel that I'm wearing this chain."
Romans 1:28-32
Furthermore, because they did not think it worthwhile to keep knowing God fully, God delivered them to degraded minds to perform acts that should not be done.
Romans 9:4-5
who are Israelis. To them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the worship, and the promises.
Romans 9:8
That is, it is not merely the children born through natural descent who were regarded as God's children, but it is the children born through the promise who were regarded as descendants.
1 Corinthians 8:4-6
Now concerning eating food offered to idols: We know that no idol is real in this world and that there is only one God.
1 Corinthians 10:19-20
Am I suggesting that an offering made to idols means anything, or that an idol itself means anything?
Galatians 3:16-17
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant. It doesn't say "descendants," referring to many, but "your descendant," referring to one person, who is the Messiah.
Colossians 1:5
based on the hope laid up for you in heaven. Some time ago you heard about this hope through the word of truth, the gospel
Colossians 1:27
to whom God wanted to make known the glorious riches of this secret among the gentiles which is the Messiah in you, our glorious hope.
2 Thessalonians 2:16
May our Lord Jesus, the Messiah himself, and may God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,
1 Timothy 1:1
From: Paul, an apostle of the Messiah Jesus, by the command of God our Savior and the Messiah Jesus, our hope.
Hebrews 6:18
so that by these two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to prove false, we who have taken refuge in him might be encouraged to seize the hope set before us.
Hebrews 11:34
put out raging fires, escaped death by the sword, found strength in weakness, became powerful in battle, and routed foreign armies.
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah! Because of his great mercy he has granted us a new birth, resulting in an immortal hope through the resurrection of Jesus, the Messiah, from the dead
1 Peter 1:21
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.
1 Peter 3:15
Instead, exalt the Messiah" as Lord in your lives. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you to explain the hope you have.
1 John 3:3
And everyone who has this hope based on him keeps himself pure, just as the Messiah is pure.