Ephesians 2:12
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12 remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.(A)
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Galatians 4:8
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Paul Reproves the Galatians
8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods.(A)
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1 Peter 1:3
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A Living Hope
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead(A)
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Colossians 1:21
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21 And you who were once estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,
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1 Thessalonians 4:13
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The Coming of the Lord
13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died,[a] so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
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- 4.13 Gk are asleep
Ezekiel 37:26
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26 I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, and I will bless[a] them and multiply them and will set my sanctuary among them forevermore.(A)
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- 37.26 Tg: Heb give
Jeremiah 31:31-34
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A New Covenant
31 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.(A) 32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord.(B) 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.(C) 34 No longer shall they teach one another or say to each other, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more.(D)
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1 Thessalonians 4:5
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5 not with lustful passion, like the gentiles who do not know God;
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Ephesians 4:18
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18 they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.(A)
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John 15:5
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5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.
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Hebrews 6:18
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18 so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God would prove false, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to seize the hope set before us.(A)
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Galatians 3:16-17
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16 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring;[a] it does not say, “And to offsprings,”[b] as of many, but it says, “And to your offspring,”[c] that is, to one person, who is Christ.(A) 17 My point is this: the law, which came four hundred thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.(B)
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1 Corinthians 10:19-20
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19 What do I imply, then? That food sacrificed to idols is anything or that an idol is anything? 20 No, I imply that what they[a] sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.(A)
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- 10.20 Other ancient authorities read the gentiles
Romans 9:8
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8 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.
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Romans 9:4-5
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4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;(A) 5 to them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, comes the Christ, who is over all, God blessed forever.[a] Amen.(B)
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- 9.5 Or Messiah, who is God over all, blessed forever; or Messiah. May he who is God over all be blessed forever
Acts 28:20
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20 For this reason therefore I asked to see you and speak with you, since it is for the sake of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”(A)
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Acts 3:25
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25 You are the descendants of the prophets and of the covenant that God gave to your ancestors, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your descendants all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’(A)
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Jeremiah 17:13
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13 O hope of Israel! O Lord!
All who forsake you shall be put to shame;
those who turn away from you[a] shall be recorded in the underworld,[b]
for they have forsaken the fountain of living water, the Lord.(A)
Psalm 89:3-18
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3 You said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one;
I have sworn to my servant David:(A)
4 ‘I will establish your descendants forever
and build your throne for all generations.’ ” Selah(B)
5 Let the heavens praise your wonders, O Lord,
your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones.(C)
6 For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord?
Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord,(D)
7 a God feared in the council of the holy ones,
great and awesome[a] above all who are around him?(E)
8 O Lord God of hosts,
who is as mighty as you, O Lord?
Your faithfulness surrounds you.(F)
9 You rule the raging of the sea;
when its waves rise, you still them.(G)
10 You crushed Rahab like a carcass;
you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.(H)
11 The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours;
the world and all that is in it—you founded them.(I)
12 The north and the south[b]—you created them;
Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name.(J)
13 You have a mighty arm;
strong is your hand, high your right hand.(K)
14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.(L)
15 Happy are the people who know the festal shout,
who walk, O Lord, in the light of your countenance;(M)
16 they exult in your name all day long
and extol[c] your righteousness.
17 For you are the glory of their strength;
by your favor our horn is exalted.(N)
18 For our shield belongs to the Lord,
our king to the Holy One of Israel.(O)
2 Chronicles 15:3
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3 For a long time Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest and without law,(A)
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Genesis 17:7-9
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7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.(A) 8 And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land where you are now an alien, all the land of Canaan, for a perpetual holding, and I will be their God.”(B)
9 God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.
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Genesis 15:18
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18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates,(A)
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1 John 3:3
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3 And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
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1 Peter 3:15
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15 but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you,(A)
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1 Peter 1:21
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21 Through him you have come to trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your trust and hope are in God.
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