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 that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.

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

And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,

For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law,

Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.

"Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.

For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods.

"Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one."

What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.

not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Aliens

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

But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers' houses in Israel said to them, "You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we alone will build to the LORD, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us."

Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks; foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers;

My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who give lying divinations. They shall not be in the council of my people, nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.

The covenants

On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.

Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words that the LORD has spoken we will do."

All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to the LORD I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD for you and for your offspring with you."

You have said, "I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn to David my servant:

"Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,

"Thus says the LORD: If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night will not come at their appointed time,

I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.

to show the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant,

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.'

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.

Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many, but referring to one, "And to your offspring," who is Christ.

Having

O you hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble, why should you be like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night?

O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from youshall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living water.

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

For this reason, therefore, I have asked to see you and speak with you, since it is because of the hope of Israel that I am wearing this chain."

because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel,

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

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

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

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

but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

General references

No foreigner or hired servant may eat of it.

You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today.