Romans 9:4

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They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.

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  • Eph 2:12 : 12 were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
  • Ps 147:19 : 19 He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.
  • Gen 17:2 : 2 I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will greatly multiply you.
  • Exod 4:22 : 22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, 'This is what the LORD says: Israel is my firstborn son,
  • 1 Kgs 8:11 : 11 The priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.
  • Rom 9:6 : 6 It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
  • Heb 9:1 : 1 The first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary.
  • Deut 7:6 : 6 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be His treasured possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
  • Deut 14:1 : 1 You are children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave a bald spot on your foreheads for the dead.
  • Acts 2:39 : 39 The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.'
  • Acts 3:25-26 : 25 You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham: 'Through your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.' 26 When God raised up His servant, Jesus, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.
  • Acts 13:32-33 : 32 We bring you the good news that what God promised to our ancestors. 33 He has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus, as it is written in the second Psalm, 'You are My Son; today I have begotten You.'
  • Rom 3:2 : 2 Much in every way! First of all, they were entrusted with the very words of God.
  • Rom 8:15 : 15 You did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, 'Abba, Father.'
  • Deut 29:1 : 1 Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, "You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.
  • Deut 29:14 : 14 But also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God and with those who are not here with us today.
  • Deut 31:16 : 16 The LORD said to Moses, 'Behold, you are going to rest with your ancestors, and this people will rise up and prostitute themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake me and break the covenant I made with them.'
  • 1 Sam 4:21-22 : 21 She named the boy Ichabod, saying, 'The glory has departed from Israel,' because the Ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband. 22 She said, 'The glory has departed from Israel, because the Ark of God has been captured.'
  • Heb 9:3 : 3 Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place.
  • Heb 9:10 : 10 They are only regulations concerning food and drink and various ceremonial washings, external ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.
  • Gen 15:18 : 18 On that day, the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River—
  • Heb 6:13-17 : 13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, 14 saying, 'Surely I will bless you abundantly and multiply your descendants greatly.' 15 And so, after waiting patiently, Abraham obtained the promise. 16 People swear by someone greater than themselves, and an oath confirms what is said and puts an end to all argument. 17 Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.
  • Heb 8:6-9 : 6 But now Jesus has obtained a more excellent ministry, as he is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been established on better promises. 7 If that first covenant had been without fault, there would have been no need to seek a second one. 8 But finding fault with them, he says: 'Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.' 9 It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and so I turned away from them, declares the Lord. 10 This is the covenant I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
  • Neh 9:13-14 : 13 You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke to them from heaven. You gave them upright judgments, true laws, good statutes, and commandments. 14 You made Your holy Sabbath known to them, and You gave them commandments, statutes, and laws through Your servant Moses.
  • Neh 13:29 : 29 Remember them, my God, for defiling the priesthood and breaking the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
  • Ps 63:2 : 2 O God, you are my God; I earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.
  • Ps 73:1 : 1 Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
  • Ps 78:61 : 61 He gave His strength into captivity and His beauty into the hand of the adversary.
  • Ps 89:3 : 3 For I have said, 'Your steadfast love is established forever; in the heavens, you will make your faithfulness firm.'
  • Ps 89:34 : 34 But I will not remove my steadfast love from him, nor will I betray my faithfulness.
  • Ps 90:16 : 16 May your deeds be shown to your servants, and your splendor to their children.
  • Exod 12:25 : 25 When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as He promised, you are to observe this ceremony.
  • Exod 19:3-6 : 3 Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain, saying, "This is what you shall say to the house of Jacob and declare to the children of Israel: 4 'You have seen what I did to Egypt and how I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you to Myself. 5 Now, if you will carefully listen to My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations, for the whole earth is Mine. 6 You will be for Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.
  • Exod 24:7-8 : 7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They said, "We will do everything the LORD has said; we will obey." 8 Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you concerning all these words."
  • Exod 34:27 : 27 The LORD said to Moses, "Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."
  • Exod 40:34 : 34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle.
  • Num 7:89 : 89 Whenever Moses entered the tent of meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the atonement cover that was on the ark of the covenant, between the two cherubim. And the LORD spoke to him.
  • Gen 17:7 : 7 I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
  • Gen 17:10 : 10 This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
  • Gen 32:28 : 28 The man asked him, 'What is your name?' 'Jacob,' he answered.
  • Isa 5:2 : 2 He dug it and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a tower in its center and also carved out a winepress in it. He hoped it would produce good grapes, but it yielded only wild ones.
  • Isa 41:8 : 8 But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend,
  • Isa 46:3 : 3 Listen to Me, house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, you who have been carried by Me from the womb, lifted up from birth.
  • Isa 60:19 : 19 The sun will no longer be your light by day, nor the brightness of the moon shine on you, for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
  • Jer 31:9 : 9 They will come with weeping, and with pleas for mercy, I will lead them. I will guide them to streams of water on a straight path where they will not stumble, for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
  • Jer 31:20 : 20 Is Ephraim my dear son, my precious child? For as often as I speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore, my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares the LORD.
  • Jer 31:33 : 33 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
  • Jer 33:20-25 : 20 This is what the Lord says: If you could break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night so that day and night would not come at their appointed time, 21 then my covenant with David my servant and my covenant with the Levitical priests who minister before me could also be broken, so that David would no longer have a descendant to reign on his throne. 22 Just as the stars in the sky cannot be counted and the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so will I multiply the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who minister before me. 23 The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 24 Have you not noticed what these people are saying: 'The Lord has rejected the two families he chose'? So they despise my people and no longer regard them as a nation. 25 This is what the Lord says: If I have not established my covenant with day and night and the fixed laws of heaven and earth,
  • Ezek 20:11-12 : 11 I gave them my statutes and made known to them my ordinances, by which a person who obeys them will live. 12 Also, I gave them my Sabbaths as a sign between me and them, so they would know that I am the LORD who makes them holy.
  • Hos 11:1 : 1 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
  • Matt 21:33 : 33 Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.
  • Luke 1:54-55 : 54 He has helped His servant Israel, remembering His mercy, 55 just as He spoke to our ancestors, to Abraham and his descendants forever.
  • Luke 1:69-75 : 69 He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David, 70 just as He spoke through the mouth of His holy prophets from long ago— 71 salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us. 72 He has shown mercy to our ancestors and remembered His holy covenant— 73 the oath that He swore to our father Abraham, to grant us: 74 that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, would serve Him without fear, 75 in holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.
  • John 1:17 : 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said about him, 'Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 9:5-9
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    5To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, came Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

    6It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

    7Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, 'Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.'

    8This means it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.

    9For this is the word of promise: 'At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.'

  • Rom 11:1-2
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    1So I ask, did God reject His people? Certainly not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

    2God has not rejected His people, whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the story of Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel?

  • Rom 9:3
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    3For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own people according to the flesh.

  • Gal 4:5
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    5to redeem those under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

  • Rom 15:8-9
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    8For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the Jews on behalf of God's truth, to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs.

    9And so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: 'Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles; I will sing praises to Your name.'

  • Rom 10:1
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    1Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is for their salvation.

  • Rom 4:16
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    16Therefore, the promise comes by faith, that it may be according to grace, so that it might be guaranteed to all the offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

  • Rom 11:26-29
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    26And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will turn godlessness away from Jacob.

    27And this will be My covenant with them when I take away their sins."

    28As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs,

    29for God’s gifts and His calling are irrevocable.

  • Gal 3:29
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    29If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

  • Rom 9:30-31
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    30What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;

    31but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, did not attain it.

  • Gal 3:9
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    9So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

  • Rom 11:7
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    7What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The chosen obtained it, but the rest were hardened.

  • Acts 3:25
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    25You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham: 'Through your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.'

  • Rom 9:23-24
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    23And what if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of mercy, whom he prepared beforehand for glory—

    24even us, whom he has also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

  • 2 Cor 11:22
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    22Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

  • Phil 3:5
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    5Circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;

  • Gal 4:28
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    28Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

  • 1 Pet 2:9-10
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    9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

    10Once, you were not a people, but now you are God's people. Once, you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

  • Rom 4:1
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    1What then shall we say about Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh?

  • Rom 9:26-27
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    26And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

    27Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: 'Though the number of the children of Israel be like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.'

  • Rom 4:13-14
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    13For the promise to Abraham or his descendants that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

    14For if those who are of the law inherit, faith is made void, and the promise is nullified.

  • Heb 7:6
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    6But this man, who does not trace his descent from them, collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises.

  • Rom 3:29
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    29Or is God the God of Jews only? Is He not also the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles too.

  • Rom 9:11
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    11Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand,

  • Eph 2:12
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    12were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

  • Rom 2:29
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    29But a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. Such a person’s praise is not from people, but from God.

  • Rom 3:2
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    2Much in every way! First of all, they were entrusted with the very words of God.

  • Gal 3:7
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    7Therefore, know that those who have faith are children of Abraham.

  • Gal 3:14
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    14He redeemed us so that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

  • Gal 4:7
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    7So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then also an heir through God.

  • Eph 1:5
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    5He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,

  • Gal 2:15
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    15We are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners,

  • 1 Chr 16:17
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    17He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant.

  • Rom 2:10
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    10But glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, first for the Jew, then also for the Gentile.

  • Rom 2:17
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    17Now you, if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the law and boast in God,

  • Acts 13:17
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    17The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors, and He made the people prosper during their stay in Egypt. With an uplifted arm, He led them out of it.