Ephesians 2:12 Cross References - MSTC

¹² remember, I say, that ye were at that time without Christ, and were reputed aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and were strangers from the testaments of promise, and had no hope, and were without God in this world.

¹⁸ And that same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "Unto thy seed will I give this land, from the river of Egypt, even unto the great river Euphrates:

⁷ Moreover, I will make my covenant between me, and thee, and thy seed after thee; in their times to be an everlasting testament, so that I will be God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. ⁸ And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger: even all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and will be their God." ⁹ And God said unto Abraham, "See thou keep my covenant, both thou and thy seed after thee in their times.

³ And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the laws. And all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words which the LORD hath said, will we do." ⁴ Then Moses wrote all the words of the LORD and rose up early and made an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars according to the number of the twelve tribes of Israel, ⁵ and sent young men of the children of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings and to offer peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD. ⁶ And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar. ⁷ And he took the book of the covenant and read it in the audience of the people. And they said, "All that the LORD hath said, we will do and hear." ⁸ And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people and said, "Behold, this is the blood of the covenant which the LORD hath made with you upon all these words." ⁹ Then went Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and the seventy elders of Israel up, ¹⁰ and saw the God of Israel, and under his feet as it were a brick work of sapphire, and as it were the fashion of heaven when it is clear, ¹¹ and upon the nobles of the children of Israel he set not his hand. And when they had seen God they ate and drank.

¹⁹ All the holy heave offerings which the children of Israel heave unto the LORD, I give thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, to be a duty forever. And it shall be a salted covenant forever, before the LORD: unto thee and to thy seed with thee."

³ There will come many days in Israel, in which there shall be no true God — nor priest that teacheth, nor any law.

³ But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the other ancient fathers of Israel answered them, "It belongeth not to you, but to us to build the house unto our God: for we ourselves will build alone unto the LORD our God of Israel, as Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us."

³ "I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant: ⁴ Thy seed will I establish forever, and set up thy throne from one generation to another." Selah. ⁵ O LORD the very heavens shall praise thy wondrous works; yea, and thy faithfulness in the congregation of the saints. ⁶ For who is he among the clouds, that may be compared unto the LORD? Yea what is he among the gods, that shall be like unto the LORD? ⁷ God is greatly to be feared in the council of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. ⁸ O LORD God of hosts, who is like unto thee in power? Thy truth, most mighty LORD, is on every side. ⁹ Thou rulest the pride of the sea; thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise. ¹⁰ Thou hast subdued Egypt, like one that is wounded; thou scatterest thine enemies abroad with thy mighty arm. ¹¹ The heavens are thine. The earth also is thine; thou hast laid the foundation of the round world and all that therein is. ¹² Thou hast made the north and the south, Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. ¹³ Thou hast a mighty arm; strong is thy hand, and high is thy righthand. ¹⁴ Righteousness and equity are the habitation of thy seat; mercy and truth shall go before thy face. ¹⁵ Blessed is the people, O LORD, that can rejoice in thee; they shall walk in the light of thy countenance. ¹⁶ Their delight shall be daily in thy name; and through thy righteousness they shall be exalted. ¹⁷ For thou art the glory of their strength, and through thy favour shalt thou lift up our horns. ¹⁸ The LORD is our defense, and the holy one of Israel is our king.

⁶ Moreover, thus hath the LORD spoken; even the King of Israel, and his avenger, the LORD of Hosts: I am the first and the last, and without me is there no God.

²⁰ Let them be gathered and come together, let them draw nigh hither, that are escaped of the people: Have they any understanding, that set up the stocks of their Idols, and praise unto a god, that cannot help them?

⁵ Strangers shall stand and feed your cattle, and the Aliens shall be your plowmen and reapers.

⁸ For thou art the comfort and help of Israel in the time of trouble. Why wilt thou be as a stranger in the Land, and as one that goeth over the field, and cometh in only to remain for a night?

¹³ Thou art the comfort of Israel. All that forsake thee, shall be ashamed. And they that depart from thee shall be written in the earth. For they have lost the LORD that is the fountain of the water of life.

³¹ Behold, the days come, sayeth the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: ³² not after the covenant that I made with their fathers, when I took them by the hand, and led them out of the land of Egypt: which covenant they brake, wherefore I punished them sore, sayeth the LORD: ³³ But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, sayeth the LORD: I will plant my law in the inward parts of them, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people. ³⁴ And from thenceforth shall no man teach his neighbour or his brother, and say, 'Know the LORD.' But they shall all know me, from the lowest unto the highest, sayeth the LORD. For I will forgive their misdeeds, and will never remember their sins anymore.

²⁰ "Thus sayeth the LORD: May the covenant which I have made with day and night be broken, that there should not be day and night in due season? ²¹ Then may my covenant also be broken, which I made with David my servant, and so he not to have a son to reign in his Throne. So shall also the priests and Levites never fail, but serve me. ²² For like as the stars of heaven may not be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and of the Levites my ministers." ²³ Moreover, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, ²⁴ "Considerest thou not what this people speaketh? 'Two kindreds,' say they, 'had the LORD chosen, and those same two hath he cast away.' For so far is my people come, that they have no hope to come together any more, and to be one people again. ²⁵ Therefore thus sayeth the LORD: If I have made no covenant with day and night, and given no statute unto heaven and earth; ²⁶ then will I also cast away the seed of David my servant: so that I will take no prince out of his seed, to rule the posterity of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But yet I will turn again their captivity, and be merciful unto them."

⁹ Mine hands shall come upon the prophets that look out vain things and preach lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, nor written in the book of the house of Israel, neither shall they come in the land of Israel: that ye may know how that I am the LORD God.

²⁶ Moreover, I will make a bond of peace with them, which shall be unto them an everlasting covenant. I will settle them also, and multiply them; my Sanctuary will I set among them for evermore.

⁴ Thus the children of Israel shall sit a great while without king and prince, without offering and alter, without priest and revelation.

⁷² To fulfill the mercy promised to our fathers; And to remember his holy covenant;

²² Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship. For salvation cometh of the Jews.

¹⁶ and other sheep I have, which are not of this fold. Them also must I bring, that they may hear my voice. And that there may be one flock, and one shepherd.

⁵ I am the vine, and ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without me can ye do nothing.

²⁵ Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant, which God hath made unto our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'Even in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.'

¹⁵ and saying, "Sirs, why do ye this? We are mortal men like unto you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven and earth and the sea and all that in them is, ¹⁶ the which in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

²⁰ For this cause have I called for you, even to see you, and to speak with you. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain."

²⁸ And as it seemed not good unto them to be a known of God, even so God delivered them up unto a lewd mind, that they should do those things which were not comely, ²⁹ being full of all unrighteous doing: of fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, evil-conditioned whisperers, ³⁰ backbiters, haters of God, doers of wrong, proud, boasters, bringers-up of evil things, disobedient to fathers and mothers, ³¹ without understanding, covenant-breakers, unloving, truce-breakers, and merciless. ³² Which men, though they knew the righteousness of God, how that they which such things commit are worthy of death: yet not only do the same, but also have pleasure in them that do them.

⁴ Which are the Israelites, to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants and the law that was given and the service of God, and the promises, ⁵ whose also are the fathers, and they of whom; as concerning the flesh; Christ came: which is God over all things, blessed forever. Amen.

⁸ that is to say; They which are the children of the flesh, are not the children of God. But the children of promise are counted the seed.

⁴ To speak of meat dedicated unto idols, we are sure that there is none idol in the world: and that there is none other God but one. ⁵ And though there be that are called "gods," whether in heaven or in earth — as there be "gods" many and "lords" many - ⁶ yet unto us is there but one God, which is the father, of whom are all things, and we in him: and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

¹⁹ What say I then? That the image is anything? Or that it which is offered to images is anything? ²⁰ Nay, but I say, that these things which the gentiles offer, they offer to devils, and not to God. And I would not that ye should have fellowship with the devils.

¹⁶ To Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, "in the seeds," as in many: But, "in thy seed," as in one, which is Christ. ¹⁷ This I say, that the law which began afterward, beyond four hundred and thirty years, doth not disannul the testament, that was confirmed afore of God unto Christ ward, to make the promise of none effect.

⁸ Notwithstanding, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them, which by nature were no gods:

¹⁸ blinded in their understanding, being strangers from the life which is in God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

⁵ for the hope's sake which is laid up in store for you in heaven, of which hope ye have heard before by the true word of the gospel,

²¹ And you — which were in times past strangers and enemies, because your minds were set in evil works — hath he now reconciled

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

⁵ and not in the lust of concupiscence, as do the heathen, which know not God,

¹³ I would not, brethren, have you ignorant concerning them which are fallen asleep, that ye sorrow not as others do which have no hope.

¹⁶ Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation, and good hope through grace,

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God our saviour, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope.

¹⁸ that by two immutable things — in which it was impossible that God should lie — we might have perfect consolation, which have fled, for to hold fast the hope that is set before us:

³⁴ quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, of weak were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

³ Blessed be God, the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which through his abundant mercy begat us again unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from death,

²¹ Which, by his means, have believed on God that raised him from death, and glorified him, that your faith and hope might be in God.

¹⁵ but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, and that with meekness and fear:

³ And every man that hath this hope in him, purgeth himself, even as he is pure.