Ephesians 2:12

Jewish And Gentile Believers United In Christ

¹¹ Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh -- who are called "uncircumcision" by the so-called "circumcision" that is performed on the body by human hands -- ¹² that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. ¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

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Galatians 4:8

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

Colossians 1:21

And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your minds as expressed through your evil deeds,

1 Thessalonians 4:13

Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope.

Ephesians 4:18

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

1 Thessalonians 4:5

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

Genesis 15:18

That day the Lord made a covenant with Abram: "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River --

Genesis 17:7-9

I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Exodus 24:3-11

Moses came and told the people all the Lord's words and all the decisions. All the people answered together, "We are willing to do all the words that the Lord has said,"

Numbers 18:19

All the raised offerings of the holy things that the Israelites offer to the Lord, I have given to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual ordinance. It is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord for you and for your descendants with you."

2 Chronicles 15:3

For a long time Israel had no true God, or priest to instruct them, or law.

Ezra 4:3

But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the leaders of Israel said to them, "You have no right to help us build the temple of our God. We will build it by ourselves for the Lord God of Israel, just as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, has commanded us."

Psalm 89:3-18

The Lord said, "I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have made a promise on oath to David, my servant:

Isaiah 44:6

This is what the Lord, Israel's king, says, their protector, the Lord who commands armies: "I am the first and I am the last, there is no God but me.

Isaiah 45:20

Gather together and come! Approach together, you refugees from the nations! Those who carry wooden idols know nothing, those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.

Isaiah 61:5

"Foreigners will take care of your sheep; foreigners will work in your fields and vineyards.

Jeremiah 14:8

You have been the object of Israel's hopes. You have saved them when they were in trouble. Why have you become like a resident foreigner in the land? Why have you become like a traveler who only stops in to spend the night?

Jeremiah 17:13

You are the one in whom Israel may find hope. All who leave you will suffer shame. Those who turn away from you will be consigned to the nether world. For they have rejected you, the Lord, the fountain of life.

Jeremiah 31:31-34

"Indeed, a time is coming," says the Lord, "when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah.

Jeremiah 33:20-26

"I, Lord, make the following promise: 'I have made a covenant with the day and with the night that they will always come at their proper times. Only if you people could break that covenant

Ezekiel 13:9

My hand will be against the prophets who see delusion and announce lying omens. They will not be included in the council of my people, nor be written in the registry of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 37:26

I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be a perpetual covenant with them. I will establish them, increase their numbers, and place my sanctuary among them forever.

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites must live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred fertility pillar, without ephod or idols.

Luke 1:72

He has done this to show mercy to our ancestors, and to remember his holy covenant --

John 4:22

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

John 10:16

I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd.

John 15:5

"I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me -- and I in him -- bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.

Acts 3:25

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, 'And in your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.'

Acts 14:15-16

"Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.

Acts 28:20

So for this reason I have asked to see you and speak with you, for I am bound with this chain because of the hope of Israel."

Romans 1:28-32

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.

Romans 9:4-5

who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

Romans 9:8

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

1 Corinthians 8:4-6

With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that "an idol in this world is nothing," and that "there is no God but one."

1 Corinthians 10:19-20

Am I saying that idols or food sacrificed to them amount to anything?

Galatians 3:16-17

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant. Scripture does not say, "and to the descendants," referring to many, but "and to your descendant," referring to one, who is Christ.

Colossians 1:5

Your faith and love have arisen from the hope laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel

Colossians 1:27

God wanted to make known to them the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

2 Thessalonians 2:16

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

1 Timothy 1:1

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

Hebrews 6:18

so that we who have found refuge in him may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.

Hebrews 11:34

quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, gained strength in weakness, became mighty in battle, put foreign armies to flight,

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 Peter 1:21

Through him you now trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

1 Peter 3:15

But set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks about the hope you possess.

1 John 3:3

And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure).