Ephesians 2:12
Good News Translation
At that time you were apart from Christ. You were foreigners and did not belong to God's chosen people. You had no part in the covenants, which were based on God's promises to his people, and you lived in this world without hope and without God.

New Revised Standard Version
remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Contemporary English Version
At that time you did not know about Christ. You were foreigners to the people of Israel, and you had no part in the promises God had made to them. You were living in this world without hope and without God,

New American Bible
were at that time without Christ, alienated from the community of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise and without God in this world.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise and without God in this world.

without.

John 10:16 And other sheep I have that are not of this fold: them also I must bring. And they shall hear my voice: And there shall be one fold and one shepherd.

John 15:5 I am the vine: you the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.

Colossians 1:21 And you, whereas you were some time alienated and enemies in mind in evil works:

aliens.

Ephesians 4:18 Having their understanding darkened: being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

Ezra 4:3 But Zorobabel, and Josue, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel said to them: You have nothing to do with us to build a house to our God, but we ourselves alone will build to the Lord our God, as Cyrus king of the Persians hath commanded us.

Isaiah 61:5 And strangers shall stand and shall feed your flocks: and the sons of strangers shall be your husbandman, and the dressers of your vines.

Ezekiel 13:9 And my hand shall be upon the prophets that see vain things, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, nor shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord God.

Hebrews 11:34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, recovered strength from weakness, became valiant in battle, put to flight the armies of foreigners.

the covenants.

Genesis 15:18 That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river to Egypt even to the great river Euphrates.

Genesis 17:7-9 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee. . . .

Exodus 24:3-11 So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice: We will do all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken. . . .

Numbers 18:19 All the firstfruits of the sanctuary which the children of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given to thee and to thy sons and daughters, by a perpetual ordinance. It is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord, to thee and to thy sons.

Psalm 89:3 I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant:

*etc:

Jeremiah 31:31-34 Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda: . . .

Jeremiah 33:20-26 Thus saith the Lord: if my covenant, with the day can be made void, and my covenant with the night, that there should not be day and night in their season: . . .

Ezekiel 37:26 And I will make a covenant of peace with them, it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will establish them, and will multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for ever.

Luke 1:72 To perform mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy testament.

Acts 3:25 You are the children of the prophets and of the testament which God made to our fathers, saying to Abraham: And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

Romans 9:4,5,8 Who are Israelites: to whom belongeth the adoption as of children and the glory and the testament and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises: . . .

Galatians 3:16,17 To Abraham were the promises made and to his seed. He saith not: And to his seeds as of many. But as of one: And to thy seed, which is Christ. . . .

having.

Jeremiah 14:8 O expectation of Israel, the Saviour thereof in time of trouble: why wilt thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man turning in to lodge?

Jeremiah 17:13 O Lord, the hope of Israel: all that forsake thee shall be confounded: they that depart from thee, shall be written in the earth: because they have forsaken the Lord, the vein of living waters.

John 4:22 You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know. For salvation is of the Jews.

Acts 28:20 For this cause therefore I desired to see you and to speak to you. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain.

Colossians 1:5,27 For the hope that is laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard in the word of the truth of the gospel, . . .

1 Thessalonians 4:13 And we will not have you ignorant brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope.

2 Thessalonians 2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God and our Father, who hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope in grace,

1 Timothy 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the commandment of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope:

Hebrews 6:18 That by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest comfort, we who have fled for refuge to hold fast the hope set before us.

1 Peter 1:3,21 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead: . . .

1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you.

1 John 3:3 And every one that hath this hope in him sanctifieth himself, as he also is holy.

without.

2 Chronicles 15:3 And many days shall pass in Israel, without the true God, and without a priest a teacher, and without the law.

Isaiah 44:6 Thus saith the Lord the king of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last, and besides me there is no God.

Isaiah 45:20 Assemble yourselves, and come, and draw near together, ye that are saved of the Gentiles: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven work, and pray to a god that cannot save.

Hosea 3:4 For the children of Israel shall sit many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without ephod, and without theraphim.

Acts 14:15,16 And saying: Ye men, why do ye these things? We also are mortals, men like unto you, preaching to you to be converted from these vain things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things that are in them: . . .

Romans 1:28-32 And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient. . . .

1 Corinthians 8:4-6 But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no God but one. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:19,20 What then? Do I say that what is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? Or that the idol is any thing? . . .

Galatians 4:8 But then indeed, not knowing God, you served them who, by nature, are not gods.

1 Thessalonians 4:5 Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God:

Context
One in Christ
11For which cause be mindful that you, being heretofore gentiles is the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision in the flesh, made by hands: 12That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise and without God in this world. 13But now in Christ Jesus, you, who some time were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.…
Cross References
Isaiah 14:1
Her time is near at hand, and her days shall not be prolonged. For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose out of Israel, and will make them rest upon their own ground: and the stranger shall be joined with them, and shall adhere to the house of Jacob.

Ezekiel 47:22
And you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you, and to the strangers that shall come over to you, that shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as men of the same country born among the children of Israel: they shall divide the possession with you in the midst of the tribes of Israel.

Acts 2:39
For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, whomsoever the Lord our God shall call.

Romans 9:4
Who are Israelites: to whom belongeth the adoption as of children and the glory and the testament and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises:

Galatians 3:17
Now this I say: that the testament which was confirmed by God, the law which was made after four hundred and thirty years doth not disannul, to make the promise of no effect.

Galatians 4:8
But then indeed, not knowing God, you served them who, by nature, are not gods.

Ephesians 2:19
Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners: but you are fellow citizens with the saints and the domestics of God,

Ephesians 4:18
Having their understanding darkened: being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

Colossians 1:21
And you, whereas you were some time alienated and enemies in mind in evil works:

1 Thessalonians 4:5
Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God:

1 Thessalonians 4:13
And we will not have you ignorant brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope.

Hebrews 8:6
But now he hath obtained a better ministry, by how much also he is a mediator of a better testament which is established on better promises.

Ephesians 2:11
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