Study it in the app“that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.”
thatὅτιyou wereἦτεat thatτῷ ἐκείνῳtimeκαιρῷwithoutχωρὶςthe Messiah,Χριστοῦalienated fromἀπηλλοτριωμένοιthe citizenshipτῆς πολιτείαςof Israelτοῦ Ἰσραὴλandκαὶstrangersξένοιto the covenantsτῶν διαθηκῶνof promise,τῆς ἐπαγγελίαςhavingἔχοντεςnoμὴhopeἐλπίδαandκαὶwithout Godἄθεοιinἐνthe world.τῷ κόσμῳ
be
To be: says who or what something is.
Where else “ēte” appearsright time
The right moment for something.
Where else “kairōi” appearswithout, apart from
Without, apart from.
Where else “chōris” appearsMessiah
Messiah: literally "anointed", the king or envoy God consecrates with oil. It is a title, not a surname; in Hebrew, mashiach.
Where else “Christou” appearsalienate, be estranged
Alienate, cut off; be a stranger to something.
Where else “apēllotriōmenoi” appearspeople
The people itself, with its laws, to which one belongs.
Where else “politeias” appearsIsrael
Israel: the name God gave to Jacob, and the people descended from him.
Where else “Israēl” appearsstranger
Someone from another land or foreign to the place; or something unknown.
Where else “xenoi” appearscovenant
The agreement with promises and obligations that God makes with his people.
Where else “diathēkōn” appearspromise
Promise.
Where else “epangelias” appearshave
To count something or someone as one's own: goods, family, faith, power.
Where else “echontes” appearshope
Hope: confidence in what God will do.
Where else “elpida” appearswithout God
Without God, neither knowing him nor having him.
Where else “atheoi” appearsworld of people
People everywhere, whom God loves.
Where else “kosmōi” appears11Therefore remember that once you, the nations in the flesh, who were called “uncircumcision” by what is called “circumcision,” in the flesh, made by hands—
12 · This verse (above)
13But now in the Messiah Jesus you who once were far off have become near by the blood of the Messiah.
1. What it says
How does Paul describe what we were before and what God did for us (v. 1-5)?
2. What it means
Paul says we are saved by grace and created for good works (v. 8-10). How do these two things fit together?
3. How I live it
The chapter speaks of people once far off who are now near (v. 13-19). Whom could you draw near to today, with respect and kindness?
