Jew in the Bible

Meaning: the praise of the Lord; confessionpar

Exact Match

Whoever requires you to go one mile, [be willing to] go with him two miles. [Note: The Romans were permitted by law to require a Jew to carry their burden for one mile only].

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LinearGoing TogetherOutward CompulsionPeople Willing

And these Samaritans did not welcome Him because He was heading for Jerusalem. [Note: They perceived He was a Jew and Samaritans did not associate with Jews].

Verse ConceptsInhospitalityRacial PrejudiceNot Welcoming Christwelcome

And this saying was pleasing to all of them: and they made selection of Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas of Antioch, who had become a Jew:

Verse ConceptsExamples Of FaithFaith, Growth InJudaismSpiritualityIndwelling Of The Holy SpiritAntioch in SyriaProselytesBeing Filled With The SpiritBelieving In GodOthers Believing In God

And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.

Verse ConceptsSeven ChildrenRiverspriests

but anger and wrath to those who are wilful, who disobey the Truth and obey wickedness ??9 anguish and calamity for every human soul that perpetrates evil, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well,

Verse ConceptsGod's IndignationAttention SeekersRejection Of God, Results OfSelf IndulgenceSelfishnessPerforming The TruthContinuing In SinSelf CenterednessRejectionCompetitiondisobedience

Circumcision indeed is an advantage, if you keep the law: but if you violate the law, your being a Jew makes you no better than a heathen.

Verse ConceptsRitualIf You Do Not Keep CommandsIf You Keep The Commandments

So if the uncircumcised heathen man observes the just demands of the law, will he not be counted as though he were a Jew?

Verse ConceptsReckoningIf You Keep The CommandmentsTrue Circumcision

and shall not the uncircumcision that is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law? for he is not a Jew, who is only so in appearance;

Verse ConceptsBook of the LawNecessity Of CircumcisionThey Do Not Keep Commands

But you [i.e., probably an objecting Jew] will say to me, "Why does God still find fault [with people]? For who can [successfully] resist what God wants to do?"

Verse ConceptsBlameResistanceGod Works His Will

No one who believes in him, the scripture says, will ever be disappointed. No one ??12 for there is no distinction of Jew and Greek, the same Lord is Lord of them all, with ample for all who invoke him.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Of The WilldefeatBelievingThe Effects Of FaithNot DisappointedNot Put To ShameScripture SaysTrustFaith And TrustDisappointmentTrusting OthersFeeling LostFaith In Godbelief

And so [i.e., in this way] all the Israelites will be saved. [Note: The "all" here is thought by many to refer to a large number of the physical Jews who will be saved, not necessarily to every single individual Jew]. Even as it is written [Isa. 59:20-21], "The Deliverer [i.e., Christ] will come from Zion [i.e., the city of Jerusalem, or from the nation of Israel]. He will take away the wickedness from Jacob [i.e., the Jews]."

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Through Jesus ChristJacob, The PatriarchUngodlinessNames And Titles For ChristChrist, Names ForImpietyDeliverersFullness Of The KingdomGod Wants To Save AllBeing SavedRemoving People From Your Lifeisraelzion

Greetings to Herodion, my fellow-Jew. [See verse 7]. Greetings to those members of the family of Narcissus who are Christians.

Verse ConceptsRelatives

does a Jew turn Christian? let him not pretend to be uncircumcised: does a Gentile turn Christian? let him not become circumcised.

Verse ConceptsConsider Your Call To SalvationNecessity Of Circumcision

But when I saw that they were not walking a straight path, in the presence of the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all. "If you, although you are a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, why do you try to compel the Gentiles to become Jews?

Verse ConceptsOppressing ForeignersThe Truth Of The GospelThe Purity Of The GospelJews Separate From GentilesNo CompulsionWorry And Stressacting

And in his human nature put an end to the cause of enmity between them--the Law with its injunctions and ordinances--in order to create, through union with himself, from Jew and Gentile, one New Man and thus make peace.

Verse ConceptsNew ThingsLaws, AbolishedLaw, And GospelRitual LawRitualSalvation, Nature OfLaw, TemporaryAbolish, Evil ThingsAnnulmentTwo GroupsNew LifeChurch Distinct From IsraelMaking Peace With God

Thematic Bible



But from among the crowd they put forward Alexander, the Jews pushing him forward. And Alexander, beckoning with his hand, would have made a defence to the people.


and Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,


Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,


those who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Saraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

Malluch, Harim, Baanah.


the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah,

the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah,


Judah and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,


those who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Saraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:


The children of Bani, six hundred and forty-two.


The children of Binnui, six hundred and forty-eight.


And all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thy hand the roll in which thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. And Baruch the son of Nerijah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.

And the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll, and he fetched it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes that stood beside the king.

And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four columns, he cut it with the scribe's knife, and cast it into the fire that was in the pan until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the pan.


And of the children of Elam, Isaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.


Machnadbai, Shashai, Sharai,


After him repaired Malchijah of the goldsmiths to the place of the Nethinim and of the dealers, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the ascent of the corner.


And Ezra the scribe stood upon a high stage of wood, which they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkijah, and Maaseiah on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddana, Zechariah, Meshullam.


Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,


And of Israel; of the children of Parosh: Ramiah, and Jizzijah, and Malchijah, and Mijamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.


And Ezra the scribe stood upon a high stage of wood, which they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkijah, and Maaseiah on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddana, Zechariah, Meshullam.


those who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Saraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:


Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,


And next to them repaired Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.


And the fountain-gate repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the chief of the district of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up its doors, its locks and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, and to the stairs that go down from the city of David.


And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, We have acted unfaithfully toward our God, and have taken foreign wives of the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.


And of the children of Adonikam, the last ones, whose names are these: Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them sixty males.


Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,


The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty.

The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty.


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