Ephesians 2:12 Cross References

Ephesians 2:12

12: In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from God's people, Israel, and you did not know the promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope.

Galatians 4:8

  1. Before you Gentiles knew God, you were slaves to so-called gods that do not even exist.

1 Peter 1:3

  1. All honor to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for it is by his boundless mercy that God has given us the privilege of being born again. Now we live with a wonderful expectation because Jesus Christ rose again from the dead.

Colossians 1:21

  1. This includes you who were once so far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions,

Jeremiah 31:31

  1. "The day will come," says the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah.
  2. This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant, though I loved them as a husband loves his wife," says the LORD.
  3. "But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel on that day," says the LORD. "I will put my laws in their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
  4. And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to teach their family, saying, `You should know the LORD.' For everyone, from the least to the greatest, will already know me," says the LORD. "And I will forgive their wickedness and will never again remember their sins."

1 Thessalonians 4:13

  1. And now, brothers and sisters, I want you to know what will happen to the Christians who have died so you will not be full of sorrow like people who have no hope.

Ezekiel 37:26

  1. And I will make a covenant of peace with them, an everlasting covenant. I will give them their land and multiply them, and I will put my Temple among them forever.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

  1. not in lustful passion as the pagans do, in their ignorance of God and his ways.

Ephesians 4:18

  1. Their closed minds are full of darkness; they are far away from the life of God because they have shut their minds and hardened their hearts against him.

Genesis 17:7

  1. "I will continue this everlasting covenant between us, generation after generation. It will continue between me and your offspring forever. And I will always be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
  2. Yes, I will give all this land of Canaan to you and to your offspring forever. And I will be their God.
  3. "Your part of the agreement," God told Abraham, "is to obey the terms of the covenant. You and all your descendants have this continual responsibility.

Jeremiah 17:13

  1. O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who turn away from you will be disgraced and shamed. They will be buried in a dry and dusty grave, for they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living water.

Psalms 89:3

  1. The LORD said, "I have made a solemn agreement with David, my chosen servant. I have sworn this oath to him:
  2. `I will establish your descendants as kings forever; they will sit on your throne from now until eternity.'"
  3. All heaven will praise your miracles, LORD; myriads of angels will praise you for your faithfulness.
  4. For who in all of heaven can compare with the LORD? What mightiest angel is anything like the LORD?
  5. The highest angelic powers stand in awe of God. He is far more awesome than those who surround his throne.

1 Corinthians 10:19

  1. What am I trying to say? Am I saying that the idols to whom the pagans bring sacrifices are real gods and that these sacrifices are of some value?
  2. No, not at all. What I am saying is that these sacrifices are offered to demons, not to God. And I don't want any of you to be partners with demons.

Romans 9:4

  1. They are the people of Israel, chosen to be God's special children. God revealed his glory to them. He made covenants with them and gave his law to them. They have the privilege of worshiping him and receiving his wonderful promises.
  2. Their ancestors were great people of God, and Christ himself was a Jew as far as his human nature is concerned. And he is God, who rules over everything and is worthy of eternal praise! Amen.

Romans 9:8

  1. This means that Abraham's physical descendants are not necessarily children of God. It is the children of the promise who are considered to be Abraham's children.

John 15:5

  1. "Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.

Acts 3:25

  1. You are the children of those prophets, and you are included in the covenant God promised to your ancestors. For God said to Abraham, 'Through your descendants all the families on earth will be blessed.'

Acts 28:20

  1. I asked you to come here today so we could get acquainted and so I could tell you that I am bound with this chain because I believe that the hope of Israel--the Messiah--has already come."

Hebrews 6:18

  1. So God has given us both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can take new courage, for we can hold on to his promise with confidence.

2 Chronicles 15:3

  1. For a long time, Israel was without the true God, without a priest to teach them, and without God's law.

Genesis 15:18

  1. So the LORD made a covenant with Abram that day and said, "I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River--

Galatians 3:16

  1. God gave the promise to Abraham and his child. And notice that it doesn't say the promise was to his children, as if it meant many descendants. But the promise was to his child--and that, of course, means Christ.
  2. This is what I am trying to say: The agreement God made with Abraham could not be canceled 430 years later when God gave the law to Moses. God would be breaking his promise.

1 Peter 1:21

  1. Through Christ you have come to trust in God. And because God raised Christ from the dead and gave him great glory, your faith and hope can be placed confidently in God.

Colossians 1:5

  1. You do this because you are looking forward to the joys of heaven--as you have been ever since you first heard the truth of the Good News.

John 10:16

  1. I have other sheep, too, that are not in this sheepfold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice; and there will be one flock with one shepherd.

1 Corinthians 8:4

  1. So now, what about it? Should we eat meat that has been sacrificed to idols? Well, we all know that an idol is not really a god and that there is only one God and no other.
  2. According to some people, there are many so-called gods and many lords, both in heaven and on earth.
  3. But we know that there is only one God, the Father, who created everything, and we exist for him. And there is only one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom God made everything and through whom we have been given life.

Isaiah 45:20

  1. "Gather together and come, you fugitives from surrounding nations. What fools they are who carry around their wooden idols and pray to gods that cannot save!

1 John 3:3

  1. And all who believe this will keep themselves pure, just as Christ is pure.

Exodus 24:3

  1. When Moses had announced to the people all the teachings and regulations the LORD had given him, they answered in unison, "We will do everything the LORD has told us to do."
  2. Then Moses carefully wrote down all the LORD's instructions. Early the next morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain. He also set up twelve pillars around the altar, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel.
  3. Then he sent some of the young men to sacrifice young bulls as burnt offerings and peace offerings to the LORD.
  4. Moses took half the blood from these animals and drew it off into basins. The other half he splashed against the altar.
  5. Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They all responded again, "We will do everything the LORD has commanded. We will obey."

Luke 1:72

  1. He has been merciful to our ancestors by remembering his sacred covenant with them,

Colossians 1:27

  1. For it has pleased God to tell his people that the riches and glory of Christ are for you Gentiles, too. For this is the secret: Christ lives in you, and this is your assurance that you will share in his glory.

Isaiah 44:6

  1. "This is what the LORD, Israel's King and Redeemer, the LORD Almighty, says: I am the First and the Last; there is no other God.

2 Thessalonians 2:16

  1. May our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father, who loved us and in his special favor gave us everlasting comfort and good hope,

Hebrews 11:34

  1. quenched the flames of fire, and escaped death by the edge of the sword. Their weakness was turned to strength. They became strong in battle and put whole armies to flight.

Jeremiah 14:8

  1. O Hope of Israel, our Savior in times of trouble! Why are you like a stranger to us? Why are you like someone passing through the land, stopping only for the night?

Acts 14:15

  1. "Friends, why are you doing this? We are merely human beings like yourselves! We have come to bring you the Good News that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.
  2. In earlier days he permitted all the nations to go their own ways,

Jeremiah 33:20

  1. "If you can break my covenant with the day and the night so that they do not come on their usual schedule,
  2. only then will my covenant with David, my servant, be broken. Only then will he no longer have a descendant to reign on his throne. The same is true for my covenant with the Levitical priests who minister before me.
  3. And as the stars cannot be counted and the sand on the seashores cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David, my servant, and the Levites who minister before me."
  4. The LORD gave another message to Jeremiah. He said,
  5. "Have you heard what people are saying?--`The LORD chose Judah and Israel and then abandoned them!' They are sneering and saying that Israel is not worthy to be counted as a nation.

1 Peter 3:15

  1. Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if you are asked about your Christian hope, always be ready to explain it.

1 Timothy 1:1

  1. This letter is from Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, appointed by the command of God our Savior and by Christ Jesus our hope.

Numbers 18:19

  1. Yes, I am giving you all these holy offerings that the people of Israel bring to the LORD. They are for you and your sons and daughters, to be eaten as your regular share. This is an unbreakable covenant between the LORD and you and your descendants."

John 4:22

  1. You Samaritans know so little about the one you worship, while we Jews know all about him, for salvation comes through the Jews.

Hosea 3:4

  1. This illustrates that Israel will be a long time without a king or prince, and without sacrifices, temple, priests, or even idols!

Romans 1:28

  1. When they refused to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their evil minds and let them do things that should never be done.
  2. Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, fighting, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip.
  3. They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They are forever inventing new ways of sinning and are disobedient to their parents.
  4. They refuse to understand, break their promises, and are heartless and unforgiving.
  5. They are fully aware of God's death penalty for those who do these things, yet they go right ahead and do them anyway. And, worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too.

Ezekiel 13:9

  1. I will raise my fist against all the lying prophets, and they will be banished from the community of Israel. I will blot their names from Israel's record books, and they will never again see their own land. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD!

Ezra 4:3

  1. But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the other leaders of Israel replied, "You may have no part in this work, for we have nothing in common. We alone will build the Temple for the LORD, the God of Israel, just as King Cyrus of Persia commanded us."

Isaiah 61:5

  1. Foreigners will be your servants. They will feed your flocks and plow your fields and tend your vineyards.
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