Ephesians 2:12

that you were at that time without the Messiah, ¹  alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, ²  having no hope and without God in the world.

Ge 15:18; Ge 17:7-9; Ex 24:3-11; Nu 18:19; 2Ch 15:3; Ezr 4:3; Ps 89:3-18; Isa 44:6; Isa 45:20; Isa 61:5; Jer 14:8; Jer 17:13; Jer 31:31-34; Jer 33:20-26; Eze 13:9; Eze 37:26; Ho 3:4; Lu 1:72; Joh 4:22; Joh 10:16; Joh 15:5; Ac 3:25; Ac 14:15,16; Ac 28:20; Ro 1:28-32; Ro 9:4,5,8; 1Co 8:4-6; 1Co 10:19,20; Ga 3:16,17; Ga 4:8; Eph 4:18; Col 1:5,27; Col 1:21; 1Th 4:5; 1Th 4:13; 2Th 2:16; 1Ti 1:1; Heb 6:18; Heb 11:34; 1Pe 1:3,21; 1Pe 3:15; 1Jo 3:3

¹ tn Or “without Christ.” Both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.” Because the context refers to ancient Israel’s messianic expectation, “Messiah” was employed in the translation at this point rather than “Christ.”

² tn Or “covenants of the promise.”