The Greek word "atheoi" αθεοι ("[those who are] without god") as it appears in the Epistle to the Ephesians 2:12, on the early 3rd-century Papyrus 46. This word - in any of its forms - appears nowhere else in the New Testament or the Koine Greek version of the Old Testament.

Catalog entry: P.Mich.inv. 6238; 149; Verso

Date: End of IInd century - first half of IIIrd century A.D. (?)

Origin: unknown

Provenance: unknown

Acquisition: purchased in 1930/1931

Language: Greek

Genre: literary

Author: St. Paul

Type of Text/Title of Work: Epistles of Paul

Content: Ephesians II, 10 - II, 20.

Bibliography: Van Haelst 0497; Aland, Repertorium, I, 0105, NT 46; LDAB 3011; for literature, see K. Aland, Repertorium der griechischen christlichen Papyri (1976), I, pp. 42-44.

Context: English translation from NIV: :^2:11Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called "uncircumcised" by those who call themselves "the circumcision" (that done in the body by the hands of men)— ^2:12remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.