Romans 9:4

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who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

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  • Eph 2:12 : 12 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.
  • Ps 147:19 : 19 He proclaims his word to Jacob, his statutes and regulations to Israel.
  • Gen 17:2 : 2 Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants.”
  • Exod 4:22 : 22 You must say to Pharaoh,‘This is what the LORD has said,“Israel is my son, my firstborn,
  • 1 Kgs 8:11 : 11 The priests could not carry out their duties because of the cloud; the LORD’s glory filled his temple.
  • Rom 9:6 : 6 It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,
  • Heb 9:1 : 1 The Arrangement and Ritual of the Earthly Sanctuary Now the first covenant, in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.
  • Deut 7:6 : 6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.
  • Deut 14:1 : 1 The Holy and the Profane You are children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead.
  • Acts 2:39 : 39 For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”
  • Acts 3:25-26 : 25 You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham,‘And in your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.’ 26 God raised up his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each one of you from your iniquities.”
  • Acts 13:32-33 : 32 And we proclaim to you the good news about the promise to our ancestors, 33 that this promise God has fulfilled to us, their children, by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second psalm,‘You are my Son; today I have fathered you.’
  • Rom 3:2 : 2 Actually, there are many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.
  • Rom 8:15 : 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry,“Abba, Father.”
  • Deut 29:1 : 1 Narrative Interlude(28:69) These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.
  • Deut 29:14 : 14 It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath,
  • Deut 31:16 : 16 Then the LORD said to Moses,“You are about to die, and then these people will begin to prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land into which they are going. They will reject me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
  • 1 Sam 4:21-22 : 21 She named the boy Ichabod, saying,“The glory has departed from Israel,” referring to the capture of the ark of God and the deaths 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 And after the second curtain there was a tent called the holy of holies.
  • Heb 9:10 : 10 They served only for matters of food and drink and various ritual washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.
  • Gen 15:18 : 18 That day the LORD made a covenant with Abram:“To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River–
  • Heb 6:13-17 : 13 Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself, 14 saying,“Surely I will bless you greatly and multiply your descendants abundantly.” 15 And so by persevering, Abraham inherited the promise. 16 For people swear by something greater than themselves, and the oath serves as a confirmation to end all dispute. 17 In the same way God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, and so he intervened with an oath,
  • Heb 8:6-9 : 6 But now Jesus has obtained a superior ministry, since the covenant that he mediates is also better and is enacted on better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one. 8 But showing its fault, God says to them,“Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. 9 “It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord. 10 “For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people.
  • Neh 9:13-14 : 13 “You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You provided them with just judgments, true laws, and good statutes and commandments. 14 You made known to them your holy Sabbath; you issued commandments, statutes, and law to them through Moses your servant.
  • Neh 13:29 : 29 Please remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, the covenant of the priesthood, and the Levites.
  • Ps 63:2 : 2 Yes, in the sanctuary I have seen you, and witnessed your power and splendor.
  • Ps 73:1 : 1 Book 3(Psalms 73-89) A psalm by Asaph. Certainly God is good to Israel, and to those whose motives are pure!
  • Ps 78:61 : 61 He allowed the symbol of his strong presence to be captured; he gave the symbol of his splendor into the hand of the enemy.
  • Ps 89:3 : 3 The LORD said,“I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have made a promise on oath to David, my servant:
  • Ps 89:34 : 34 I will not break my covenant or go back on what I promised.
  • Ps 90:16 : 16 May your servants see your work! May their sons see your majesty!
  • Exod 12:25 : 25 When you enter the land that the LORD will give to you, just as he said, you must observe this ceremony.
  • Exod 19:3-6 : 3 Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain,“Thus you will tell the house of Jacob, and declare to the people of Israel: 4 ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt and how I lifted you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. 5 And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine, 6 and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”
  • Exod 24:7-8 : 7 He took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people, and they said,“We are willing to do and obey all that the LORD has spoken.” 8 So Moses took the blood and splashed it on the people and said,“This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with 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 Now when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the atonement lid that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim. Thus he spoke to him.
  • Gen 17:7 : 7 I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
  • Gen 17:10 : 10 This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.
  • Gen 32:28 : 28 “No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him,“but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”
  • Isa 5:2 : 2 He built a hedge around it, removed its stones, and planted a vine. He built a tower in the middle of it, and constructed a winepress. He waited for it to produce edible grapes, but it produced sour ones instead.
  • Isa 41:8 : 8 The Lord Encourages His People“You, my servant Israel, Jacob whom I have chosen, offspring of Abraham my friend,
  • Isa 46:3 : 3 “Listen to me, O family of Jacob, all you who are left from the family of Israel, you who have been carried from birth, you who have been supported from the time you left the womb.
  • Isa 60:19 : 19 The sun will no longer supply light for you by day, nor will the moon’s brightness shine on you; the LORD will be your permanent source of light– the splendor of your God will shine upon you.
  • Jer 31:9 : 9 They will come back shedding tears of contrition. I will bring them back praying prayers of repentance. I will lead them besides streams of water, along smooth paths where they will never stumble. I will do this because I am Israel’s father; Ephraim is my firstborn son.’”
  • Jer 31:20 : 20 Indeed, the people of Israel are my dear children. They are the children I take delight in. For even though I must often rebuke them, I still remember them with fondness. So I am deeply moved with pity for them and will surely have compassion on them. I, the LORD, affirm it!
  • Jer 31:33 : 33 “But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel after I plant them back in the land,” says the LORD.“I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts and minds. I will be their God and they will be my people.
  • Jer 33:20-25 : 20 “I, the LORD, make the following promise:‘I have made a covenant with the day and with the night that they will always come at their proper times. Only if you people could break that covenant 21 could my covenant with my servant David and my covenant with the Levites ever be broken. So David will by all means always have a descendant to occupy his throne as king and the Levites will by all means always have priests who will minister before me. 22 I will make the children who follow one another in the line of my servant David very numerous. I will also make the Levites who minister before me very numerous. I will make them all as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sands which are on the seashore.’” 23 The LORD’s message came to Jeremiah another time. 24 “You have surely noticed what these people are saying, haven’t you? They are saying,‘The LORD has rejected the two families of Israel and Judah that he chose.’ So they have little regard that my people will ever again be a nation. 25 But I, the LORD, make the following promise: I have made a covenant governing the coming of day and night. I have established the fixed laws governing heaven and earth.
  • Ezek 20:11-12 : 11 I gave them my statutes and revealed my regulations to them. The one who carries them out will live by them! 12 I also gave them my Sabbaths as a reminder of our relationship, so that they would know that I, the LORD, sanctify them.
  • Hos 11:1 : 1 Reversal of the Exodus: Return to Egypt and Exile in Assyria When Israel was a young man, I loved him like a son, and I summoned my son out of Egypt.
  • Matt 21:33 : 33 The Parable of the Tenants“Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.
  • Luke 1:54-55 : 54 He has helped his servant Israel, remembering his mercy, 55 as he promised to our ancestors, to Abraham and to his descendants forever.”
  • Luke 1:69-75 : 69 For he has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, 70 as he spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from long ago, 71 that we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us. 72 He has done this to show mercy to our ancestors, and to remember his holy covenant– 73 the oath that he swore to our ancestor Abraham. This oath grants 74 that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, may serve him without fear, 75 in holiness and righteousness before him for as long as we live.
  • John 1:17 : 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed,“Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”

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    5To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.

    6It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,

    7nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather“through Isaac will your descendants be counted.”

    8This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.

    9For this is what the promise declared:“About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.”

  • Rom 11:1-2
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    1Israel’s Rejection not Complete nor Final So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely 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! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

  • Rom 9:3
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    3For I could wish that I myself were accursed– cut off from Christ– for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,

  • Gal 4:5
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    5to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.

  • Rom 15:8-9
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    8For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth to confirm the promises made to the fathers,

    9and thus the Gentiles glorify God for his mercy. As it is written,“Because of this I will confess you among the Gentiles, and I will sing praises to your name.”

  • Rom 10:1
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    1Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites is for their salvation.

  • Rom 4:16
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    16For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants– not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

  • Rom 11:26-29
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    26And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:“The Deliverer will come out of Zion; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob.

    27And this is my covenant with them, when I take away their sins.”

    28In regard to the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but in regard to election they are dearly loved for the sake of the fathers.

    29For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

  • Gal 3:29
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    29And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to the promise.

  • Rom 9:30-31
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    30Israel’s Rejection Culpable What shall we say then?– that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith,

    31but Israel even though pursuing a law of righteousness did not attain it.

  • Gal 3:9
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    9So then those who believe are blessed along with Abraham the believer.

  • Rom 11:7
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    7What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. 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 ancestors, saying to Abraham,‘And in your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.’

  • Rom 9:23-24
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    23And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory–

    24even us, whom he has 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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    5I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the people of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. I lived according to the law as a Pharisee.

  • Gal 4:28
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    28But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.

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    9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

    10You once were not a people, but now you are God’s people. You were shown no mercy, but now you have received mercy.

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    1The Illustration of Justification What then shall we say that Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh, has discovered regarding this matter?

  • Rom 9:26-27
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    26“And 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.’”

    27And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel,“Though the number of the children of Israel are as 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 to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

    14For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified.

  • Heb 7:6
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    6But Melchizedek who does not share their ancestry collected a tithe from Abraham and blessed the one who possessed the promise.

  • Rom 3:29
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    29Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes, of the Gentiles too!

  • Rom 9:11
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    11even before they were born or had done anything good or bad(so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling)–

  • Eph 2:12
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    12that 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.

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

  • Rom 3:2
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    2Actually, there are many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.

  • Gal 3:7
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    7so then, understand that those who believe are the sons of Abraham.

  • Gal 3:14
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    14in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we could receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.

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

  • Eph 1:5
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    5He did this by predestining us to adoption as his legal heirs through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will–

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    15The Justification of Jews and Gentiles We are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners,

  • 1 Chr 16:17
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    17He gave it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as a lasting promise,

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

  • Rom 2:17
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    17The Condemnation of the Jew But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

  • Acts 13:17
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    17The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and made the people great during their stay as foreigners in the country of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.