8 Bible Verses about Church Distinct From Israel
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that John baptized indeed with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit after a few days.
for we have all been baptized with one Spirit in one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and have all been made to drink one Spirit.
And I tell you that you are Peter [a rock], and upon this rock will I build my assembly, and the gates of hades shall not prevail against it.
For this cause I Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ for you gentiles, if indeed you heard of the dispensation of the grace of God given to me for you, that by revelation the mystery was made known to me,??s I wrote before in a few words,read more.
by reading which you can understand my knowledge of the mystery of Christ,??5 which in other generations was not made known to the children of men as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit, that the gentiles are co-heirs and of the same body and joint partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel, of which I was made a minister by the gracious gift of God, given to me by the operation of his power. To me, who am the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the nations the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to enlighten all men as to the dispensation of the mystery concealed from eternity in God who created all things, that now to the principalities and powers in the heavenly [worlds] should be made known, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God,
the enmity, and abolished by his flesh the law of commandments [consisting] of ordinances, that of the two he might create in himself one new man, making peace,
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [worlds] in Christ,
I SAY then, has God cast away his people? By no means; for I also am an Israelite, of the race of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know you not what the Scripture says in Elijah, how he intercedes with God against Israel?
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