remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. Cross References Isaiah 14:1 For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob. Ezekiel 47:22 You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners who dwell among you and who have children. You are to treat them as native-born Israelites; along with you, they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. Acts 2:39 This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off--to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself." Romans 9:4 the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises. Galatians 3:17 What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise. Galatians 4:8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods. Ephesians 2:19 Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household, Ephesians 4:18 They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts. Colossians 1:21 Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds because of your evil deeds. 1 Thessalonians 4:5 not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God; 1 Thessalonians 4:13 Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope. Hebrews 8:6 Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises. Treasury of Scripture That at that time you 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: without. John 10:16 John 15:5 Colossians 1:21 aliens. Ephesians 4:18 Ezra 4:3 Isaiah 61:5 the covenants. Genesis 15:18 Genesis 17:7-9 Exodus 24:3-11 having. Jeremiah 14:8 Jeremiah 17:13 John 4:22 without. 2 Chronicles 15:3 Isaiah 44:6 Isaiah 45:20 |