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Ephesians 2:12

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:

KJV

ὅτι ἦτε τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ χωρὶς Χριστοῦ ἀπηλλοτριωμένοι τῆς πολιτείας τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ ξένοι τῶν διαθηκῶν τῆς ἐπαγγελίας, ἐλπίδα μὴ ἔχοντες καὶ ἄθεοι ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ·

Greek NT

quia eratis illo in tempore sine Christo, alienati a conversatione Israël, et hospites testamentorum, promissionis spem non habentes, et sine Deo in hoc mundo.

Vulgate

that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

ASV

That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise and without God in this world.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

20 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Χριστός
christos
noun · 530×
διαθήκη
diatheke
noun · 33×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καιρός
kairos
noun · 85×
κόσμος
kosmos
noun · 184×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
ξένος
xenos
adjective · 14×
πολιτεία
politeia
noun · 2×
χωρίς
choris
adverb · 41×
ἀπαλλοτριόω
apallotrioo
verb · 3×
ἄθεος
atheos
adjective · 1×
ἐκεῖνος
ekeinos
demonstrative · 240×
ἐλπίς
elpis
noun · 53×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἐπαγγελία
epaggelia
noun · 52×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
Ἰσραήλ
israel
noun · 68×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: ἦτε | WH/Treg/NIV: ἦτε | RP: + ἐν
  • ἦτεSBLGNT
  • ἦτεWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + ἐνRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

1. Jesus Comes to Capernaum. Statements of the Four Evangelists Regarding This. After this John 2:12-25 He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother and His brothers and His disciples; and there they abode not many days. And the passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and He found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers…
1. The Parable of the Tares: the House of Jesus. Then He left the multitudes and went into His house, and His disciples came unto Him saying, Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field. Matthew 13:36 When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave t…
As the sacred synod searches into the mystery of the Church, it remembers the bond that spiritually ties the people of the New Covenant to Abraham's stock. The Church cannot forget that she received the revelation of the Old Testament through the people with whom God in His inexpressible mercy concluded the Ancient Covenant. Nor can she forget that she draws sustenance from the…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 8:4 — As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
  • 1Cor 10:19 — What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
  • 1John 3:3 — And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
  • 1Pet 1:1 — Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
  • 1Pet 1:3 — Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
  • 1Pet 1:21 — Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
  • 1Pet 3:15 — But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
  • 1Thess 4:5 — Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
  • 1Thess 4:5 — Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
  • 1Thess 4:13 — But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
  • 1Thess 4:13 — But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
  • 1Tim 1:1 — Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;
  • 2Chr 6:32 — Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name’s sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in
  • 2Chr 15:3 — Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
  • 2Thess 2:16 — Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
  • Acts 3:25 — 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 kindreds of the earth be blessed.
  • Acts 14:15 — And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and
  • Acts 14:16 — Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
  • Acts 17:23 — For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
  • Acts 19:35 — And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the
  • Acts 27:20 — And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.
  • Acts 28:20 — For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
  • Col 1:5 — For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
  • Col 1:21 — And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
  • Col 1:21 — And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
  • Col 1:27 — 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:
  • Col 3:15 — And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
  • Deut 4:7 — For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
  • Deut 23:8 — The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
  • Eph 1:18 — The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
  • Eph 2:13 — But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
  • Eph 2:19 — Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
  • Eph 4:18 — Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
  • Eph 4:18 — Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
  • Exod 24:3 — And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.
  • Ezek 13:9 — And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, nei
  • Ezek 16:61 — Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
  • Ezek 37:26 — Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore
  • Ezek 47:22 — And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as
  • Ezra 4:3 — But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto