Romans 9:4

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Romans 9:4

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Summary

Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

Are israelites

The adoption

And the glory

Isaiah 60:19

Covenants

The giving

John 1:17

The service

Promises

General references

Luke 15:31

Bible References

Are israelites

I speak not these things as though the words of God had taken none effect. For they are not all Israelites which came of Israel;

And he said, "Thou shalt be called Jacob no more, but Israel. For thou hast wrestled with God and with men and hast prevailed."

And Moses went up unto God. And the LORD called to him out of the mountain saying, "Thus say unto the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel,

For thou art a holy nation unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a several people unto himself of all nations that are upon the earth.

{A Psalm of Asaph} Truly God is loving unto Israel, even unto such as are of a clean heart.

And thou Israel, my servant; Jacob, my elect seed of Abraham my beloved,

Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all ye that remain yet of the household of Israel, whom I have borne from your mother's womb, and brought you up from your birth, till ye were grown:

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him, "Behold a right Israelite, in whom is no guile."

The adoption

And tell Pharaoh, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: Israel is mine eldest son,

Ye are the children of the LORD your God; cut not yourselves nor make you any baldness between the eyes for any man's death.

They departed from hence in heaviness, but with joy will I bring them hither again. I will lead them by the rivers of water in a straight way, where they shall not stumble: For I will be Israel's father, and Ephraim shall be my firstborn.

When Israel was young, I loved him: and called my son out of the land of Egypt.

And the glory

And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of witness to speak with him, he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of witness: even from between the two cherubims he spake unto him.

And she named the child Ichabod saying, "Honour is departed from Israel" - Because the ark of God was taken, and her father-in-law and her husband were dead.

that the priests could not endure to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.

Thus do I look for thee in thy Sanctuary, that I might behold thy power and glory.

He delivered their power into captivity, and their beauty into the enemy's hand.

Show thy servants thy work, and their children thy glory.

The Sun shall never be thy day light, and the light of the Moon shall never shine unto thee: but the LORD himself shall be thine everlasting light, and thy God shall be thy glory.

Covenants

And that same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "Unto thy seed will I give this land, from the river of Egypt, even unto the great river Euphrates:

And I will make my covenant between thee and me, and will multiply thee exceedingly."

And he took the book of the covenant and read it in the audience of the people. And they said, "All that the LORD hath said, we will do and hear."

And the LORD said unto Moses, "Write these words, for upon these words I have made a covenant with thee and with the children of Israel."

These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

And the LORD said unto Moses, "Behold, thou must sleep with thy fathers, and this people will go a whoring after strange gods of the land whither they go and will forsake me and break the covenant which I have made with them.

O my God, think thou upon them that are quit of the priesthood, and have defiled the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites!

"I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant:

But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, sayeth the LORD: I will plant my law in the inward parts of them, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

"Thus sayeth the LORD: May the covenant which I have made with day and night be broken, that there should not be day and night in due season?

Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant, which God hath made unto our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'Even in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.'

Now hath he obtained a more excellent office, inasmuch as he is the mediator of a better testament, which was made for better promises.

The giving

Surely, very much. First: unto them was committed the word of God.

Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest unto them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, true laws, good commandments and statutes,

He showeth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and ordinances unto Israel.

I gave them my commandments, and showed them my laws: which whoso keepeth shall live in them.

For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

The service

And when ye be come into the land which the LORD will give you according as he hath promised, see that ye keep this service.

This he hedged, this he walled round about, and planted it with goodly grapes. In the midst of it builded he a tower, and made a wine press therein. And afterward when he looked that it should bring him grapes, it brought forth thorns.

"Hearken another similitude. There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and made a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a strange country:

But within the second veil was there a tabernacle, which is called holiest of all,

Promises

He remembereth mercy: and helpeth his servant Israel.

"For the promise was made unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar, even as many as the Lord God shall call."

Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant, which God hath made unto our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'Even in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.'

And we declare unto you, how that the promise made unto the fathers;

remember, I say, that ye were at that time without Christ, and were reputed aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and were strangers from the testaments of promise, and had no hope, and were without God in this world.

For when God made promise to Abraham, because he had no greater thing to swear by, he sware by himself,

General references

And he said unto him, 'Son, thou wast ever with me, and all that I have is thine: