Romans 9:29

World English Bible (2000)

As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah."

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  • Isa 1:9 : 9 Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom; we would have been like Gomorrah.
  • Isa 13:19 : 19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
  • Jer 50:40 : 40 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
  • Amos 4:11 : 11 "I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
  • Jer 49:18 : 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.
  • Deut 29:23 : 23 [and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
  • Gen 19:24-25 : 24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky. 25 He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
  • Isa 6:13 : 13 If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains when they are felled; so the holy seed is its stock."
  • Lam 3:22 : 22 [It is of] Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail.
  • Lam 4:6 : 6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid on her.
  • Zeph 2:6 : 6 The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.
  • 2 Pet 2:6 : 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;
  • Jude 1:7 : 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

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  • Isa 1:9-10
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    9Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom; we would have been like Gomorrah.

    10Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

  • Rom 9:26-28
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    76%

    26"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"

    27Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;

    28for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth."

  • Rom 9:30-31
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    30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

    31but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness.

  • Rom 9:6-10
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    6But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.

    7Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."

    8That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

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

    10Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.

  • Ezra 9:13-15
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    13"After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

    14shall we again break your commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn't you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?

    15Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is this day. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for none can stand before you because of this."

  • Rom 11:5
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    5Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

  • Rom 3:9
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    9What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

  • Heb 11:18
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    18even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"

  • Acts 15:17
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    17That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; All the Gentiles who are called by my name, Says the Lord, who does all these things.

  • Dan 9:14
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    14Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

  • Rom 11:26
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    26and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

  • Jer 49:18
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    18As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.

  • Obad 1:21
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    21Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh's.

  • 2 Kgs 19:31
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    31For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape. The zeal of Yahweh will perform this.'

  • Isa 48:19
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    19your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

  • Isa 61:9
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    9Their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which Yahweh has blessed."

  • Gal 4:28
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    28Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

  • Rom 15:12
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    12Again, Isaiah says, "There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope."

  • Rom 9:13-14
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    13Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

    14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

  • Luke 17:29
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    29but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.

  • Amos 9:8-9
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    8Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," says Yahweh.

    9"For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.

  • Amos 9:12
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    12that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name," says Yahweh who does this.

  • Jer 50:40
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    40As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.

  • Amos 4:11
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    11"I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.

  • Rom 10:16
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    16But they didn't all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"

  • 2 Pet 2:6
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    6and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;

  • Deut 29:23
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    23[and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

  • Rom 11:7
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    7What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn't obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

  • Gal 3:8
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    8The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."

  • Rom 9:24
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    24us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

  • Hos 1:10
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    10Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'

  • Acts 15:15
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    15This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,

  • 1 Cor 9:10
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    10or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

  • Rom 11:1
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    1I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

  • Rom 9:33
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    33even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed."

  • Isa 49:8
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    8Thus says Yahweh, "In an acceptable time have I answered you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage:

  • Mark 13:20
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    20Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days.

  • Rom 3:29
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    29Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,