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Eph. 2:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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That
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
hoti (Greek #3754)
demonstrative, that (sometimes redundant); causative, because
KJV usage: as concerning that, as though, because (that), for (that), how (that), (in) that, though, why.
Pronounce: hot'-ee
Origin: neuter of 3748 as conjunction
at
en (Greek #1722)
"in," at, (up-)on, by, etc.
KJV usage: about, after, against, + almost, X altogether, among, X as, at, before, between, (here-)by (+ all means), for (... sake of), + give self wholly to, (here-)in(-to, -wardly), X mightily, (because) of, (up-)on, (open-)ly, X outwardly, one, X quickly, X shortly, (speedi-)ly, X that, X there(-in, -on), through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), under, when, where(-with), while, with(-in). Often used in compounds, with substantially the same import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different) preposition.
Pronounce: en
Origin: a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between 1519 and 1537)
that
ekeinos (Greek #1565)
that one (or (neuter) thing); often intensified by the article prefixed
KJV usage: he, it, the other (same), selfsame, that (same, very), X their, X them, they, this, those. See also 3778.
Pronounce: ek-i'-nos
Origin: from 1563
time
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
kairos (Greek #2540)
an occasion, i.e. set or proper time
KJV usage: X always, opportunity, (convenient, due) season, (due, short, while) time, a while. Compare 5550.
Pronounce: kahee-ros'
Origin: of uncertain affinity
ye were
en (Greek #2258)
I (thou, etc.) was (wast or were)
KJV usage: + agree, be, X have (+ charge of), hold, use, was(-t), were.
Pronounce: ane
Origin: imperfect of 1510
without
choris (Greek #5565)
at a space, i.e. separately or apart from (often as preposition)
KJV usage: beside, by itself, without.
Pronounce: kho-rece'
Origin: adverb from 5561
Christ
Christos (Greek #5547)
anointed, i.e. the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus
KJV usage: Christ.
Pronounce: khris-tos'
Origin: from 5548
, being aliens
apallotrioo (Greek #526)
to estrange away, i.e. (passively and figuratively) to be non-participant
KJV usage: alienate, be alien.
Pronounce: ap-al-lot-ree-o'-o
Origin: from 575 and a derivative of 245
from the commonwealth
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
politeia (Greek #4174)
citizenship; concretely, a community
KJV usage: commonwealth, freedom.
Pronounce: pol-ee-ti'-ah
Origin: from 4177 ("polity")
of Israel
Israel (Greek #2474)
Israel (i.e. Jisrael), the adopted name of Jacob, including his descendants (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: Israel.
Pronounce: is-rah-ale'
Origin: of Hebrew origin (03478)
, and
kai (Greek #2532)
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
KJV usage: and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
Pronounce: kahee
Origin: apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force
strangers
xenos (Greek #3581)
foreign (literally, alien, or figuratively, novel); by implication, a guest or (vice-versa) entertainer
KJV usage: host, strange(-r).
Pronounce: xen'-os
Origin: apparently a primary word
from the covenants
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
diatheke (Greek #1242)
properly, a disposition, i.e. (specially) a contract (especially a devisory will)
KJV usage: covenant, testament.
Pronounce: dee-ath-ay'-kay
Origin: from 1303
of promise
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
epaggelia (Greek #1860)
an announcement (for information, assent or pledge; especially a divine assurance of good)
KJV usage: message, promise.
Pronounce: ep-ang-el-ee'-ah
Origin: from 1861
, having
echo (Greek #2192)
(used in certain tenses only) a primary verb; to hold (used in very various applications, literally or figuratively, direct or remote; such as possession; ability, contiuity, relation, or condition)
KJV usage: be (able, X hold, possessed with), accompany, + begin to amend, can(+ -not), X conceive, count, diseased, do + eat, + enjoy, + fear, following, have, hold, keep, + lack, + go to law, lie, + must needs, + of necessity, + need, next, + recover, + reign, + rest, + return, X sick, take for, + tremble, + uncircumcised, use.
Pronounce: ekh'-o
Origin: σχέω (skheh'-o)
no
me (Greek #3361)
(adverb) not, (conjunction) lest; also (as an interrogative implying a negative answer (whereas 3756 expects an affirmative one)) whether
KJV usage: any but (that), X forbear, + God forbid, + lack, lest, neither, never, no (X wise in), none, nor, (can-)not, nothing, that not, un(-taken), without. Often used in compounds in substantially the same relations. See also 3362, 3363, 3364, 3372, 3373, 3375, 3378.
Pronounce: may
Origin: a primary particle of qualified negation (whereas 3756 expresses an absolute denial)
hope
elpis (Greek #1680)
expectation (abstractly or concretely) or confidence
KJV usage: faith, hope.
Pronounce: el-pece'
Origin: from a primary ἔλπω (to anticipate, usually with pleasure)
, and
kai (Greek #2532)
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
KJV usage: and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
Pronounce: kahee
Origin: apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force
without God
atheos (Greek #112)
godless
KJV usage: without God.
Pronounce: ath'-eh-os
Origin: from 1 (as a negative particle) and 2316
in
en (Greek #1722)
"in," at, (up-)on, by, etc.
KJV usage: about, after, against, + almost, X altogether, among, X as, at, before, between, (here-)by (+ all means), for (... sake of), + give self wholly to, (here-)in(-to, -wardly), X mightily, (because) of, (up-)on, (open-)ly, X outwardly, one, X quickly, X shortly, (speedi-)ly, X that, X there(-in, -on), through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), under, when, where(-with), while, with(-in). Often used in compounds, with substantially the same import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different) preposition.
Pronounce: en
Origin: a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between 1519 and 1537)
the world
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
kosmos (Greek #2889)
orderly arrangement, i.e. decoration; by implication, the world (in a wide or narrow sense, including its inhabitants, literally or figuratively (morally))
KJV usage: adorning, world.
Pronounce: kos'-mos
Origin: probably from the base of 2865
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without.
John 10:16• 16And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must lead, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock , one shepherd. (John 10:16)
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John 15:5• 5I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, he beareth much fruit; because apart from me ye can do nothing. (John 15:5)
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Col. 1:21• 21And you [who] once were alienated and enemies in mind by wicked works, (Col. 1:21)
aliens.
Eph. 4:18• 18being darkened in the understanding, estranged from the life of God on account of the ignorance that is in them, on account of the hardening of their heart, (Eph. 4:18)
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Ezra 4:3• 3But 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 Jehovah God of Israel, as king Cyrus, the king of Persia, hath commanded us. (Ezra 4:3)
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Isa. 61:5• 5And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and aliens' sons [shall be] your plowmen and your vinedressers. (Isa. 61:5)
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Ezek. 13:9• 9And 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, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 13:9)
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Heb. 11:34• 34quenched fire's power, escaped sword's edge, were strengthened from weakness, became mighty in war, put to flight armies of aliens. (Heb. 11:34)
the covenants.
Gen. 15:18• 18On the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates, (Gen. 15:18)
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Gen. 17:7‑9• 7and I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.
 8And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.
 9And God said to Abraham, And as for thee, thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou and thy seed after thee in their generations. (Gen. 17:7‑9)
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Ex. 24:3‑11• 3And Moses came and told the people all the words of Jehovah, and all the judgments; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which Jehovah hath said will we do.
 4And Moses wrote all the words of Jehovah, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
 5And he sent the youths of the children of Israel, and they offered up burnt-offerings, and sacrificed sacrifices of peace-offering of bullocks to Jehovah.
 6And Moses took half the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
 7And he took the book of the covenant, and read it in the ears of the people; and they said, All that Jehovah has said will we do, and obey!
 8And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant that Jehovah has made with you concerning all these words.
 9And Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up;
 10and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were work of transparent sapphire, and as it were the form of heaven for clearness.
 11And on the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: they saw God, and ate and drank. (Ex. 24:3‑11)
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Num. 18:19• 19All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to Jehovah, have I given thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by an everlasting statute: it shall be an everlasting covenant of salt before Jehovah unto thee and thy seed with thee. (Num. 18:19)
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Psa. 89:3‑18• 3I have made a covenant with mine elect [one],{HR}I have sworn to David my servant.
 4Forever will I stablish thy seed,{HR}And build up thy throne [from] generation to generation. Selah.
 5And the heavens shall confess thy wonder, O Jehovah,{HR}And thy faithfulness in the congregation of the saints.
 6For who in the sky can compare with Jehovah?{HR}[Who] among the sons of the mighty (plural) can be likened to Jehovah?
 7God (El) [is] greatly to be feared in the council of the saints{HR}And terrible above all those around him.
 8Jehovah God of hosts, who [is] like thee, strong Jah,{HR}And thy faithfulness round about thee?
 9Thou rulest in the pride of the sea,{HR}In the arising of its waves thou stillest them.
 10Thou hast crushed Rahab as a slain [one];{HR}With the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thine enemies.
 11Thine [are] the heavens, also thine the earth;{HR}The world and its fullness thou hast founded them.
 12The north and the south, thou hast created them:{HR}Tabor and Hermon triumph in thy name.
 13Thine [is] an arm with might, strong is thy hand;{HR}Exalted is thy right hand.
 14Righteousness and judgment [are] the foundation of thy throne,{HR}Mercy and truth go before thy face.
 15Blessed the people that know the joyful shout!{HR}Jehovah, in the light of thy face they walk.
 16In thy name they rejoice all the day,{HR}And in thy righteousness they are exalted.
 17For thou [art] the honour of their strength,{HR}And in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.
 18For to Jehovah [belongeth] our shield,{HR}And to the Holy one of Israel, our king. (Psa. 89:3‑18)
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Jer. 31:31‑34• 31Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
 32not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith Jehovah.
 33This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith Jehovah, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
 34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah: for they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. (Jer. 31:31‑34)
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Jer. 33:20‑26• 20Thus saith Jehovah; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
 21then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
 22As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
 23Moreover the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying,
 24Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovah hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
 25Thus saith Jehovah, If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
 26then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them. (Jer. 33:20‑26)
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Ezek. 37:26• 26Moreover 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. 37:26)
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Luke 1:72• 72to fulfil mercy with our fathers, and remember his holy covenant; (Luke 1:72)
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Acts 3:25• 25Ye are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God covenanted with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. (Acts 3:25)
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Rom. 9:4‑5,8• 4which are Israelites, whose [is] the adoption and the glory and the covenants and the law-giving and the service and the promises;
 5whose are the fathers, and of whom [is] the Christ as far as according to flesh, who is over all God blessed forever. Amen.
 8That is, not the children of the flesh, these [are] children of God, but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed; (Rom. 9:4‑5,8)
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Gal. 3:16‑17• 16But to Abraham were addressed the promises, and to his seed; he doth not say “and to seeds” as of many, but as of one “and to thy seed,” which is Christ.
 17Now this I say: the covenant ratified beforehand by God, the law, which took place four hundred and thirty years after, doth not annul so as to make the promise void. (Gal. 3:16‑17)
having.
Jer. 14:8• 8O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night? (Jer. 14:8)
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Jer. 17:13• 13Jehovah, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living waters. (Jer. 17:13)
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John 4:22• 22Ye worship what ye know not: we worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews. (John 4:22)
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Acts 28:20• 20For this cause therefore did I call for you to see and to speak with, for on account of the hope of Israel am I bound with this chain. (Acts 28:20)
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Col. 1:5,27• 5on account of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,
 27to whom God wished to 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. 1:5,27)
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1 Thess. 4:13• 13But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those that fall asleep; that ye be not grieved even as the rest also that have no hope. (1 Thess. 4:13)
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2 Thess. 2:16• 16But our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, that loved us and gave everlasting encouragement and good hope through grace, (2 Thess. 2:16)
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1 Tim. 1:1• 1Paul, apostle of Christ Jesus according to command of God our Saviour and of Christ Jesus our hope, (1 Tim. 1:1)
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Heb. 6:18• 18intervened by an oath, that by two unchangeable things in which [it was] impossible that God should lie we might have strong encouragement that fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us, (Heb. 6:18)
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1 Peter 1:3,21• 3Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, that according to his abundant mercy begot us again unto a living hope through Jesus Christ's resurrection out of [the] dead,
 21that through him believe on God that raised him out of [the] dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God, (1 Peter 1:3,21)
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1 Peter 3:15• 15but sanctify the Christ as Lord in your hearts, ready always for answer to everyone that asketh you a reason for the hope that is in you, but with meekness and fear, (1 Peter 3:15)
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1 John 3:3• 3And every one that hath this hope on him purifieth himself even as he is pure. (1 John 3:3)
without.
2 Chron. 15:3• 3Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God and without a teaching priest and without law. (2 Chron. 15:3)
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Isa. 44:6• 6Thus saith Jehovah, the King of Israel and his Redeemer Jehovah of hosts; I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and besides me there is no God. (Isa. 44:6)
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Isa. 45:20• 20Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye [that are] escaped of the nations. They have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god [that] cannot save. (Isa. 45:20)
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Hos. 3:4• 4For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: (Hos. 3:4)
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Acts 14:15‑16• 15and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like affections with you, preaching to you that ye should turn from these vain things unto a living God, who made the heaven and the earth, and the sea and all things in them;
 16who in the bygone generations suffered all the Gentiles to walk in their own ways. (Acts 14:15‑16)
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Rom. 1:28‑32• 28And even as they disapproved to have God in acknowledgment, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind to do improper things;
 29being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, ill-will; whisperers,
 30slanderers, God-hated, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
 31void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, pitiless;
 32which, knowing right well the righteous award of God that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practice them but also have a fellow-pleasure in those that do [them]. (Rom. 1:28‑32)
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1 Cor. 8:4‑6• 4Concerning the eating, then, of the things sacrificed to idols, we know that [there is] no idol in [the] world, and that [there is] no God save one.
 5For even if there are [so-]called gods whether in heaven, or on earth, as there are gods many and lords many;
 6yet to us [there is] one God the Father, of whom [are] all things, and we unto him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we by him. (1 Cor. 8:4‑6)
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1 Cor. 10:19‑20• 19What say I then? that an idol-sacrifice is anything, or that an idol is anything?
 20but that what they sacrifice, they sacrificed to demons, and not to God; and I wish you not to be in fellowship with demons. (1 Cor. 10:19‑20)
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Gal. 4:8• 8But then, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods; (Gal. 4:8)
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1 Thess. 4:5• 5not in passion of lust, even as also the Gentiles that know not God; (1 Thess. 4:5)
• “And they were strangers from the covenants of promise.” God gave glorious promises in the form of a covenant, and bound Himself to accomplish them. The Gentiles had no part nor lot in them. (“Remarks on Ephesians 2:11-22” by W. Kelly)
• “The promises,” then, do not go up higher than Abraham: they are connected with the dispensations of God. It may be asked, Have we not promises? I answer, We have all the promises of God; but how and where? They are yea and amen in Christ Jesus. If we have Christ, we are Abraham's seed, and inheritors of the promises, though in a way totally differing from that in which the Jews had them of old, or will have them by and by. We come in on the ground of pure mercy, and as outside covenant altogether. (“Remarks on Ephesians 2:11-22” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without Godh in the world:

JND Translation Notes

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Or "atheists."

W. Kelly Translation

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