Ephesians 2:12

Remember that you were at that time far from Christ; you were shut out from the citizenship of Israel; you were strangers to the covenants founded on God’s promise; you were in the world without hope and without God.

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In The King James Version

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:

In Context

11Remember, therefore, that you were once Gentiles yourselves, as your bodies showed; you were called ‘the Uncircumcised’ by those who were called ‘the Circumcised’ – circumcised only by human hands!

13But now, through your union with Christ Jesus, you who once were far off have, by the shedding of the blood of the Christ, been brought near.

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Cross References

Genesis 15:18At that time the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates.”

Matthew Henry on Ephesians 2:12-14

The Miserable Condition of the Ephesians by Nature. ( a. d. 61.) 11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12 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: 13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. In… Read the whole commentary →

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