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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:

That {G3754} at {G1722} that {G1565} time {G2540} ye were {G2258} without {G5565} Christ {G5547}, being aliens {G526} from the commonwealth {G4174} of Israel {G2474}, and {G2532} strangers {G3581} from the covenants {G1242} of promise {G1860}, having {G2192} no {G3361} hope {G1680}, and {G2532} without God {G112} in {G1722} the world {G2889}:

at that time had no Messiah. You were estranged from the national life of Isra’el. You were foreigners to the covenants embodying God’s promise. You were in this world without hope and without God.

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.

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.

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Cross-References

  • Galatians 4:8 (19 votes)

    ¶ Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

  • Colossians 1:21 (14 votes)

    And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

  • Jeremiah 31:31 (10 votes)

    Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

  • Jeremiah 31:34 (10 votes)

    And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

  • 1 Peter 1:3 (10 votes)

    ¶ 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,

  • Ephesians 4:18 (9 votes)

    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:

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:13 (8 votes)

    ¶ 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.