Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.

Bible References

I say

Romans 10:18
But I ask, “Did they not hear?” Yes, they did:

Their voice has gone out to all the earth,
and their words to the ends of the inhabited world.
Romans 3:26
God presented Him to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be righteous and declare righteous the one who has faith in Jesus.
1 Corinthians 1:12
What I am saying is this: Each of you says, “I’m with Paul,” or “I’m with Apollos,” or “I’m with Cephas,” or “I’m with Christ.”
1 Corinthians 7:29
And I say this, brothers: The time is limited, so from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none,
1 Corinthians 10:19
What am I saying then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
1 Corinthians 11:22
Don’t you have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you look down on the church of God and embarrass those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I do not praise you for this!
1 Corinthians 15:50
Brothers, I tell you this: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and corruption cannot inherit incorruption.

First

Romans 11:11
I ask, then, have they stumbled in order to fall? Absolutely not! On the contrary, by their stumbling, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.
Deuteronomy 32:21
They have provoked My jealousy
with their so-called gods;
they have enraged Me with their worthless idols.
So I will provoke their jealousy
with an inferior people;
I will enrage them with a foolish nation.
Hosea 2:23
I will sow her in the land for Myself,
and I will have compassion
on No Compassion;
I will say to Not My People:
You are My people,
and he will say, “You are My God.”
1 Peter 2:10
Once you were not a people,
but now you are God’s people;
you had not received mercy,
but now you have received mercy.

Foolish

Romans 1:21
For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened.
Psalm 115:5
They have mouths but cannot speak,
eyes, but cannot see.
Isaiah 44:18
Such people do not comprehend
and cannot understand,
for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see,
and their minds so they cannot understand.
Jeremiah 10:8
They are both stupid and foolish,
instructed by worthless idols
made of wood!
1 Corinthians 12:2
You know that when you were pagans, you used to be led off to the idols that could not speak.
Titus 3:3
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

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