Ephesians 2:12 that (or: because) you were, and continued on being for that season (or: in that appointed situation), apart from Christ (the Anointed One; = the Messiah): people having been alienated from the state of being a citizen (or: estranged from citizenship in the commonwealth) of Israel and being strangers pertaining to the arrangements of (or: foreigners from covenants and testamentary dispositions whose origin is) The Promise (or the assurance), continually having no expectation (or: hope), and were folks without God (or: godless; atheists) within the ordered System (world of culture, religion and governments).

JMNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹² that (or: because) you were, and continued on being for that season (or: in that appointed situation), apart from Christ ([the] Anointed One; = [the] Messiah): people having been alienated from the state of being a citizen (or: estranged from citizenship in the commonwealth) of Israel and [being] strangers pertaining to the arrangements of (or: foreigners from covenants and testamentary dispositions whose origin is) The Promise (or the assurance), continually having no expectation (or: hope), and [were] folks without God (or: godless; atheists) within the ordered System (world of culture, religion and governments).