Eph.2.12

Ephesians 2:12

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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:

One in Christ

Cross References

Isaiah 14:1

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For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

Restoration for Israel

Ezekiel 47:22

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¶ And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

The Borders of the Land

Acts 2:39

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For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Three Thousand Believe

Romans 9:4

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Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

Paul’s Concern for the Jews

Galatians 3:17

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And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

The Purpose of the Law

Galatians 4:8

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Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

Paul’s Concern for the Galatians

Ephesians 2:19

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Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

Christ Our Cornerstone

Ephesians 4:18

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Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

New Life in Christ

Colossians 1:21

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And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

The Supremacy of the Son

1 Thessalonians 4:5

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Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

Living to Please God

1 Thessalonians 4:13

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But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

The Return of the Lord

Hebrews 8:6

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But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.