Ephesians 2:12 Cross References - Lamsa

¹² At that time you were without Christ, being aliens to the customs of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope, and without God in the world.

⁷² He has shown mercy to our fathers, and he has remembered his holy covenants;

²² You worship what you do not know; but we worship what we do know; for salvation is from the Jews.

¹⁶ I have other sheep also, which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear my voice; and all the sheep will become one flock and one shepherd.

⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains with me and I with him, will bear abundant fruit; for without me you can do nothing.

²⁵ You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, By your seed shall all the kindred of the earth be blessed.

¹⁵ And saying, Men, what are you doing? We also are ordinary human beings like you, who preach to you that you should turn from these useless things to the living God who made heaven and earth and the sea and all things that are therein, ¹⁶ Who in generations past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

²⁰ This is the reason I begged you to come, for I wish to see you and to relate these things to you; because it is for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.

²⁸ And as they did not consent in themselves to know God, God has given them over to a weak mind, to do the things which should not be done; as, ²⁹ Being filled with all manner of iniquity, fornication, bitterness, malice, extortion, envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil thoughts, ³⁰ Slanderers, backbiters, haters of God, revilers, proud boasters, inventors of evil things, the weak-minded, disobedient to their parents; ³¹ These have no respect for a covenant. They know neither love nor peace, nor is there mercy in them; ³² Knowing the judgment of God, that those who commit such things, he condemns to death, they not only do them, but also associate with those who practice them.

⁴ Who are Israelites; to whom belongs the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants and the law, and the rituals therein, and the promises; ⁵ Whose are the fathers, from among whom Christ appeared in the flesh, who is God over all, to whom are due praises and thanksgiving, for ever and ever. Amen.

⁸ That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; but the children of the promise who are reckoned as descendants.

⁴ As concerning the eating of the food offered to 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 those that are called gods, whether in heaven or earth, just as there are many gods and many lords, ⁶ To us there is one God, the Father, from whom comes every thing and by whom we live; and one LORD Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

¹⁹ What do I say then? that the idol is anything, or that the sacrifice to idols is anything? No. ²⁰ But that which the pagans sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils and not to God: and I would not have you in fellowship with devils.

¹⁶ Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his seed as a covenant. He did not say, To your seeds, as of many, but to your seed, as one, that is Christ. ¹⁷ And this I say, that the covenant which was previously confirmed of God in Christ cannot be repudiated and the promise nullified by the law which came four hundred and thirty years later.

⁸ Howbeit then, when you did not know God, you served those things which from their nature were not gods.

¹⁸ And whose understanding is dark, and who are alienated from the life of God, because they have no knowledge, and because of the blindness of their hearts;

⁵ For the hope which is preserved for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the true word of the gospel;

²¹ Even to you, who in times past were alienated and hostile in your minds because of your evil works, has been given peace,

²⁷ To whom God wanted to make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ among you, the hope of our glory;

⁵ And not through the passion of lust, even as the rest of the Gentiles who know not God:

¹³ Now I want you to know, my brethren, that you should not grieve over those who are dead, as those do who have no hope.

¹⁶ Now our LORD Jesus Christ himself, and God even our Father, who has loved us, and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through his grace,

¹ PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Christ Jesus, our hope;

¹⁸ Thus, by the promise and by the oath which are unchangeable, and in neither of which could God lie, we find courage to hold fast to the hope that has been promised by him in whom we have taken refuge.

³⁴ Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, and became valiant in battle, and routed the camps of enemies;

³ Blessed be God, the Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, who by his abundant mercy has again renewed us spiritually to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

²¹ Who by him do believe in God, who raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might rest on God.

¹⁵ But sanctify the LORD Christ in your hearts: and be ready to give an answer in meekness and reverence to everyone who seeks from you a word concerning the hope of your faith:

³ Let every man who has this hope in him purify himself, even as he is pure.