Ephesians 2:12 Cross References - Haweis

¹² that ye were at that time without Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and atheists in the world:

⁷² to perform mercy towards our fathers, and to remember his own holy covenant:

²² Ye worship ye know not what: we worship what we do know: for salvation cometh from the Jews.

¹⁶ And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: these also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, one shepherd.

⁵ I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, this person beareth much fruit: because without me ye can do nothing.

²⁵ Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And "in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed."

¹⁵ and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We too are mortals subject to the same infirmities with you; preaching to you the gospel, that ye should turn from these vain things unto the living God, who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things which are therein: ¹⁶ who in the past generations hath suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

²⁰ For this cause therefore have I invited you hither, to see and to converse with you; for on account of the hope of Israel am I bound with this chain.

²⁸ And since they thought not fit to hold the Deity in acknowledgment, God abandoned them to a reprobate mind, to practise deeds unbecoming; ²⁹ replete with all injustice, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, villany; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, evil habits; whisperers, ³⁰ backbiters, God-haters, contumelious, insolent, boasters, inventors of wicked practices, disobedient to parents, ³¹ unintelligent, unfaithful to engagements, unnatural, implacable, unmerciful: ³² who, though they know the righteous judgment of God, that they who live in such practices are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also find pleasure in the company of those who live in these practices.

⁴ who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the gift of the law, and the sacred service, and the promises; ⁵ of whom are the fathers, and from whom as respecting the flesh Christ sprung, who is over all, the blessed God for evermore. Amen.

⁸ That is, not the children of the flesh, these are the children of God: but the children of the promise are accounted for the seed.

⁴ Now concerning eating things sacrificed unto idols: we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one. ⁵ For though there are gods so called, whether celestial or terrestrial, (as [of this sort] there are gods many, and lords many;) ⁶ but to us there is one God, the Father; of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

¹⁹ What do I say then? that an idol is any thing, or that which is sacrificed to an idol is any thing? ²⁰ But that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to daemons, and not to God: and I would not have you in communion with daemons.

¹⁶ But to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, To seeds, as unto many persons; but as to an individual, and to thy seed, which is Christ. ¹⁷ Now this I say, the covenant confirmed of God to Christ, the law, which was given three hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, so as to vacate the promise.

⁸ But at that time when ye knew not God, ye served those who by nature are not gods.

¹⁸ darkened in understanding; alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them; through the blindness of their hearts:

⁵ because of the hope laid up for you in the heavens, which ye have heard before in the word of truth, the gospel,

²¹ And you who in time past were all aliens, and enemies in mind by wicked works, hath he now reconciled,

²⁷ to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

⁵ not in the vile passion of lewdness, as the Gentiles which know not God;

¹³ Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are fallen asleep, that ye be not afflicted, as the rest [of mankind] who have no hope.

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

¹ PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the order of God, our Saviour, and Lord, Jesus Christ, who is our hope;

¹⁸ that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us;

³⁴ extinguished the force of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, they were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in battle, routed the armies of aliens.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto an animating hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

²¹ who by him believe in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

¹⁵ but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be always ready with your reply to every man who demands a reason respecting the hope which is in you with meekness and fear:

³ And every one who hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.