These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Ephesians 2
Brit Hadashah 22 verses
- 1 To you Gentiles also, who were dead through your offences and sins,
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which were once habitual to you while you walked in the ways of this world and obeyed the Prince of the powers of the air, the spirits that are now at work in the hearts of the sons of disobedience—to you has given Life.
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Ephesians 6:12 Ephesians 2:3 Ephesians 5:6 1 Corinthians 6:11 John 12:31 John 8:44 1 John 5:19 Colossians 3:6-7 1 John 2:15-17 Ephesians 4:22 2 Corinthians 4:4 1 Peter 1:14 Revelation 20:2 1 John 4:4 1 John 5:4 1 Corinthians 5:10 Luke 16:8 John 16:11 Romans 12:2 John 13:2 Revelation 13:14 James 4:4 John 7:7 Luke 11:21-26 James 1:7 John 13:27 2 Timothy 4:10 Matthew 13:38 1 John 3:8 Colossians 1:21 Galatians 1:4 Luke 22:2-3 Psalm 17:14 John 15:19 1 Peter 4:3 Revelation 12:9 1 John 3:10 Hosea 10:9 Acts 5:3 Job 1:7 2 Peter 2:14 Jeremiah 23:10 Luke 22:31 Isaiah 30:1 Revelation 13:8 Matthew 12:43-45 Matthew 11:19 John 8:23 Acts 19:35 John 14:30 Job 31:7 Isaiah 57:4 Revelation 16:17 Job 1:16 Job 1:19 -
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Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others.
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Titus 3:3 Galatians 2:15-16 Psalm 51:5 1 Peter 1:14 Ephesians 2:2 1 Peter 2:10-11 Ephesians 4:22 Romans 13:14 1 Corinthians 4:7 1 John 1:8-10 Genesis 6:5 Romans 11:30 Job 15:14-16 Romans 3:22-23 Romans 7:18 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Daniel 9:5-9 Isaiah 53:6 John 1:13 Romans 8:7-8 Jude 1:16-18 Mark 4:19 John 8:44 Romans 9:22 Acts 17:30-31 Ephesians 4:17-19 Job 25:4 1 John 2:8 Galatians 5:16-24 1 Peter 4:2-3 1 Timothy 6:9 Romans 1:24 Galatians 3:22 Job 14:4 Acts 14:16 1 John 2:16 John 3:1-6 2 Peter 2:14 Genesis 8:21 2 Peter 2:18 Romans 5:12-19 Mark 7:21-22 James 4:1-3 Romans 3:9-19 2 Corinthians 7:1 Romans 6:12 Genesis 5:3 Isaiah 64:6-7 -
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But , being rich in , because of the intense which He bestowed on us,
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1 Peter 1:3 Ephesians 1:7 Ephesians 2:7 Psalm 86:15 Psalm 145:8 Titus 3:4-7 Ephesians 3:8 Exodus 33:19 Jeremiah 31:3 1 John 4:10-19 Romans 9:23 Deuteronomy 7:7-8 Psalm 51:1 2 Thessalonians 2:13 Deuteronomy 9:5-6 Psalm 103:8-11 Psalm 86:5 Romans 10:12 Romans 2:4 Exodus 34:6-7 Micah 7:18-20 Jonah 4:2 John 3:14-17 Luke 1:78 Romans 5:20-21 Nehemiah 9:17 Ezekiel 16:6-8 1 Timothy 1:14 Isaiah 55:6-8 2 Timothy 1:9 Romans 9:15-16 Romans 5:8 Daniel 9:9 - 5 caused us, dead though we were through our offences, to live with —it is by that you have been saved—
- 6 raised us with Him from the dead, and enthroned us with Him in the heavenly realms as being in ,
- 7 in order that, by His goodness to us in , He might display in the Ages to come the transcendent riches of His .
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For it is by that you have been saved through ; and that not of yourselves. It is Elohim’s , and is not on the ground of merit—
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Ephesians 2:5 Romans 3:22-26 Romans 4:16 James 1:16-18 Acts 16:31 Romans 10:9-10 Mark 16:16 John 1:12-13 John 6:37 John 6:44 John 6:27-29 Luke 7:50 John 5:24 Galatians 3:14 John 4:10 John 3:36 Ephesians 2:10 John 6:35 Galatians 3:22 Acts 13:39 John 3:14-18 Romans 10:17 Colossians 2:12 Acts 14:27 John 6:65 2 Thessalonians 1:9 1 John 5:10-12 Romans 4:5 Ephesians 1:19 Romans 10:14 John 6:40 Acts 15:7-9 Philippians 1:29 Matthew 16:17 1 Peter 1:5 Acts 16:14 -
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so that it may be impossible for any one to boast.
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For we are Elohim’s own handiwork, created in for good works which He has pre-destined us to practise.
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Colossians 1:10 Philippians 2:13 2 Corinthians 5:17 Hebrews 13:21 Ephesians 4:24 Ephesians 4:1 2 Corinthians 9:8 Ephesians 1:4 Titus 2:14 Philippians 1:6 2 Timothy 3:17 Psalm 100:3 Titus 3:8 2 Timothy 2:21 Titus 3:14 1 Peter 2:12 Isaiah 43:21 Titus 2:7 John 3:21 Colossians 3:10 1 Timothy 6:18 Acts 9:36 1 John 2:6 1 Timothy 2:10 Acts 9:31 Jeremiah 31:33 Isaiah 44:21 2 Thessalonians 2:17 1 John 1:7 Hebrews 10:24 Isaiah 61:3 Psalm 119:3 Isaiah 60:21 Isaiah 29:23 Titus 3:1 1 Corinthians 3:9 1 Timothy 5:25 1 Timothy 5:10 Matthew 5:16 Isaiah 19:25 2 Corinthians 5:5 John 3:3-6 Psalm 138:8 Deuteronomy 5:33 Jeremiah 32:39-40 Psalm 51:10 Deuteronomy 32:6 Psalm 81:13 Isaiah 2:3-5 Romans 8:1 -
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Therefore, do not forget that formerly you were Gentiles as to your bodily condition. You were called the Uncircumcision by those who style themselves the Circumcised—their circumcision being one which the knife has effected.
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Colossians 2:11 Colossians 2:13 1 Corinthians 12:2 Colossians 3:11 Colossians 1:21 Deuteronomy 16:12 Jeremiah 9:25-26 Isaiah 51:1-2 Philippians 3:3 Galatians 4:8-9 Deuteronomy 5:15 Deuteronomy 9:7 Deuteronomy 8:2 Galatians 6:12 1 Corinthians 6:11 Romans 2:28-29 1 Samuel 17:26 Ephesians 5:8 Deuteronomy 15:15 Ezekiel 36:31 Galatians 2:15 Ezekiel 16:61-63 1 Samuel 17:36 Ezekiel 20:43 -
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At that time you were living apart from , estranged from the Commonwealth of , with no share by birth in the Covenants which are based on the Promises, and you had no and no , in all the world.
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Galatians 4:8 Colossians 1:21 1 Thessalonians 4:13 1 Thessalonians 4:5 Ephesians 4:18 Genesis 17:7-9 Ezekiel 37:26 Psalm 89:3-18 Jeremiah 17:13 Genesis 15:18 Acts 28:20 John 15:5 Galatians 3:16-17 1 Peter 1:3 1 Peter 1:21 Jeremiah 14:8 2 Chronicles 15:3 Romans 1:28-32 Romans 9:4-5 Hebrews 11:34 Luke 1:72 Ezra 4:3 Ezekiel 13:9 Acts 3:25 Hebrews 6:18 1 Corinthians 10:19-20 1 Timothy 1:1 Hosea 3:4 Acts 14:15-16 Exodus 24:3-11 Numbers 18:19 Isaiah 45:20 Jeremiah 31:31-34 1 Peter 3:15 Colossians 1:5 John 10:16 Jeremiah 33:20-26 2 Thessalonians 2:16 Isaiah 44:6 Isaiah 61:5 Colossians 1:27 1 Corinthians 8:4-6 John 4:22 1 John 3:3 Romans 9:8 -
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But now in you who once were so far away have been brought near through the death of .
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Acts 2:39 Isaiah 57:19 Acts 26:18 Colossians 1:13-14 Romans 3:23-30 Psalm 73:27 Ephesians 2:12 1 Corinthians 1:30 2 Corinthians 5:20-21 1 Corinthians 6:11 Isaiah 43:6 Hebrews 9:18 Psalm 22:7 Isaiah 49:12 Ephesians 2:19-22 1 Peter 3:18 Isaiah 11:10 Romans 8:1 Ephesians 3:5-8 Isaiah 60:9 Acts 22:21 Romans 5:9-10 Isaiah 66:19 Isaiah 24:15-16 Ephesians 2:16-17 Galatians 3:28 2 Corinthians 5:17 Colossians 1:20-22 Romans 15:8-12 Acts 15:14 Jeremiah 16:19 Isaiah 60:4 Revelation 5:9 Ephesians 1:7 1 Peter 1:18-19 -
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For He is our —He who has made Jews and Gentiles one, and in His own human nature has broken down the hostile dividing wall,
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Ephesians 2:15 Galatians 3:28 Colossians 3:11 Colossians 2:10-14 Colossians 1:20 Hebrews 13:20 Colossians 2:20 Micah 5:5 Colossians 3:15 Ezekiel 37:19-20 Ezekiel 34:24-25 Isaiah 19:24-25 Romans 5:1 Zechariah 6:13 Ephesians 3:15 Ephesians 4:16 Acts 10:36 Esther 3:8 Acts 10:28 1 Corinthians 12:12-13 John 16:33 John 11:52 Hebrews 7:2 Isaiah 9:6-7 Luke 2:14 Luke 1:79 John 10:16 - 15 by setting aside the Law with its commandments, expressed, as they were, in definite decrees. His design was to unite the two sections of humanity in Himself so as to form one new man,
- 16 thus effecting , and to reconcile Jews and Gentiles in one body to , by means of His cross—slaying by it their mutual enmity.
- 17 So He came and proclaimed good news of to you who were so far away, and to those who were near;
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because it is through Him that Jews and Gentiles alike have access through one to the Father.
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Ephesians 3:12 1 Corinthians 12:13 Romans 5:2 John 14:6 Ephesians 4:4 Romans 8:15 John 10:9 John 10:7 Colossians 1:12 Hebrews 4:15-16 Hebrews 10:19-20 Galatians 4:6 Hebrews 7:19 1 Corinthians 8:6 1 Peter 1:17 1 Peter 1:21 James 3:9 1 John 2:1-2 Zechariah 12:10 Ephesians 3:14 John 4:21-23 Matthew 28:19 1 Peter 3:18 Jude 1:20 Ephesians 6:18 Romans 8:26-27 - 19 You are therefore no longer mere foreigners or persons excluded from civil rights. On the contrary you share citizenship with Elohim’s people and are members of His family.
- 20 You are a building which has been reared on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, the cornerstone being Himself,
- 21 in union with whom the whole fabric, fitted and closely joined together, is growing so as to form a in the Lord;
- 22 in whom you also are being built up together to become a fixed abode for through the .