Verse 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:

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Pet 1:2 : 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
  • Gen 44:15 : 15 Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"
  • Exod 32:1 : 1 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him."
  • Num 16:15 : 15 Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, "Don't respect their offering: I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them."
  • Neh 9:30 : 30 Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet would they not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
  • Ps 94:14 : 14 For Yahweh won't reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
  • Jer 18:19-23 : 19 Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me. 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them. 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle. 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet. 23 Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.
  • Luke 4:1 : 1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness
  • John 4:1-3 : 1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself didn't baptize, but his disciples), 3 he left Judea, and departed into Galilee.
  • John 4:11 : 11 The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water?
  • Acts 3:17 : 17 "Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
  • Acts 7:40 : 40 saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.'
  • Acts 13:48 : 48 As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
  • Acts 15:18 : 18 All his works are known to God from eternity.'
  • Rom 8:29-30 : 29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
  • Rom 9:6 : 6 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.
  • Rom 9:23 : 23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,
  • 1 Cor 6:2 : 2 Don't you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
  • Phil 1:22 : 22 But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don't know what I will choose.
  • Heb 1:1 : 1 God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,