Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Were
General references
Bible References
Were
Romans 9:25
As he says also in Hosea: I will call that my people which is not my people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.
Obtained
Romans 11:6
And if the election is by grace, it is no longer by works; otherwise grace is no longer grace.
1 Corinthians 7:25
But with respect to virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment as one that is enabled, by the mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.
1 Timothy 1:13
me, I say, who before was a reviler and a persecutor and an overbearing man. But I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief:
Hebrews 4:16
Let us come, therefore, with boldness, to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace to help in every time of need.
General references
Romans 9:16
Therefore, it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy.