Romans 9:6

World English Bible (2000)

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.

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  • Gal 6:16 : 16 As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God's Israel.
  • Rom 2:28-29 : 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh; 29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
  • Num 23:19 : 19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"
  • Rom 3:3 : 3 For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
  • Rom 4:12-16 : 12 He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision. 13 For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect. 15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience. 16 For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
  • Rom 11:1-2 : 1 I 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. 2 God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
  • Heb 6:17-18 : 17 In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath; 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
  • 2 Tim 2:13 : 13 If we are faithless, he remains faithful. He can't deny himself."
  • John 10:35 : 35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can't be broken),
  • Isa 55:11 : 11 so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
  • Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

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  • Rom 9:7-11
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    7 Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."

    8 That 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.

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

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

    11 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

  • Rom 9:24-27
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    24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

    25 As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."

    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.'"

    27 Isaiah 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;

  • Rom 9:4-5
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    4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

    5 of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

  • Rom 11:1-2
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    1 I 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.

    2 God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

  • Rom 9:29-32
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    29 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."

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

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

    32 Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

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    6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

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

    8 According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day."

  • Hos 1:10
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    10 Yet 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.'

  • Rom 2:28-29
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    28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

    29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

  • Gal 3:7-9
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    7 Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

    8 The 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."

    9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

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    28 Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.

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    25 For I don't desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

    26 and 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.

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

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

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    9 Don't think to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

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

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    16 For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

    17 As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

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    16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

  • Rom 11:11
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    11 I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

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

  • Rom 3:3
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    3 For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

  • Gal 6:16
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    16 As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God's Israel.

  • Matt 10:6
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    6 Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

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    8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

    9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

  • Hos 9:17
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    17 My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.

  • Rom 4:13-14
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    13 For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

    14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

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

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    21 But, as it is written, "They will see, to whom no news of him came. They who haven't heard will understand."

  • Heb 8:9
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    9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn't continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them," says the Lord.

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    19 But I ask, didn't Israel know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation void of understanding I will make you angry."