Cross references

Ephesians 2:12

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.

Ephesians 2:12 BSB

Ephesians 2:12 has 45 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 24 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Galatians 4:8 (21 votes) and Colossians 1:21 (16 votes). 80 other verses point back to it. It links with 33 other books, from Genesis 15 to 1 John 3.

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Which verses does Ephesians 2:12 point to?

The 20 strongest of 45, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.

  2. Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.

  3. 1 Peter 1:314 votes

    Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

  4. Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD. …

  5. They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

  6. Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope.

  7. And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary among them forever.

  8. John 15:58 votes

    I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.

  9. Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.

  10. I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.” …

  11. John 10:165 votes
  12. Romans 9:85 votes

Which verses point to Ephesians 2:12?

The 10 strongest of 80.