Romans 9:4

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Romans 9:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

3 For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,

4 the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

5 Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen.

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

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Romans 9:6

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

Genesis 32:28

Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”

Exodus 19:3

Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain, “This is what you are to tell the house of Jacob and explain to the sons of Israel:

Exodus 19:4

‘You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.

Exodus 19:5

Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.

Exodus 19:6

And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.”

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.

Psalms 73:1

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

Isaiah 41:8

“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—

Isaiah 46:3

“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.

John 1:47

When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”

Exodus 4:22

Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,

Deuteronomy 14:1

You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,

Jeremiah 31:9

They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”

Jeremiah 31:20

Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.

Hosea 11:1

When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.

Numbers 7:89

When Moses entered the Tent of Meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the mercy seat on the ark of the Testimony. Thus the LORD spoke to him.

1 Samuel 4:21

And she named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God had been captured and her father-in-law and her husband had been killed.

1 Samuel 4:22

“The glory has departed from Israel,” she said, “for the ark of God has been captured.”

1 Kings 8:11

so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.

Psalms 63:2

So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.

Psalms 78:61

He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.

Psalms 90:16

May Your work be shown to Your servants, and Your splendor to their children.

Isaiah 60:19

No longer will the sun be your light by day, nor the brightness of the moon shine on your night; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your splendor.

Genesis 15:18

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 Euphrates—

Genesis 17:2

I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.”

Genesis 17:7

I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Genesis 17:10

This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.

Exodus 24:7

Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”

Exodus 24:8

So 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 in accordance with all these words.”

Exodus 34:27

The LORD also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

Deuteronomy 29:1

These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.

Deuteronomy 31:16

And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.

Nehemiah 13:29

Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

Psalms 89:3

You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:

Psalms 89:34

I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.

Jeremiah 31:33

“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

Jeremiah 33:20

“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,

Jeremiah 33:21

then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.

Jeremiah 33:22

As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”

Jeremiah 33:23

Moreover, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

Jeremiah 33:24

“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.

Jeremiah 33:25

This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,

Acts 3:25

And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’

Hebrews 8:6

Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.

Hebrews 8:7

For if that first covenant had been without fault, no place would have been sought for a second.

Hebrews 8:8

But God found fault with the people and said: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

Hebrews 8:9

It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not abide by My covenant, and I disregarded them, declares the Lord.

Hebrews 8:10

For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

Romans 3:2

Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.

Nehemiah 9:13

You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.

Nehemiah 9:14

You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.

Psalms 147:19

He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.

Ezekiel 20:11

And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.

Ezekiel 20:12

I also gave them My Sabbaths as a sign between us, so that they would know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

John 1:17

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Exodus 12:25

When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as He promised, you are to keep this service.

Isaiah 5:2

He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!

Matthew 21:33

Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.

Hebrews 9:3

Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,

Hebrews 9:10

They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.

Luke 1:54

He has helped His servant Israel, remembering to be merciful,

Luke 1:55

as He promised to our fathers, to Abraham and his descendants forever.”

Luke 1:69

He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,

Luke 1:70

as He spoke through His holy prophets, those of ages past,

Luke 1:71

salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us,

Luke 1:72

to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,

Luke 1:73

the oath He swore to our father Abraham, to grant us

Luke 1:74

deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear,

Luke 1:75

in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our lives.

Acts 2:39

This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

Acts 3:26

When God raised up His Servant, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”

Acts 13:32

And now we proclaim to you the good news: What God promised our fathers

Acts 13:33

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 become Your Father.’

Ephesians 2:12

remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

Hebrews 6:13

When God made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,

Hebrews 6:14

saying, “I will surely bless you and multiply your descendants.”

Hebrews 6:15

And so Abraham, after waiting patiently, obtained the promise.

Hebrews 6:16

Men swear by someone greater than themselves, and their oath serves as a confirmation to end all argument.

Hebrews 6:17

So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.