Romans 9:4
For they are Israelites; to them belong the privileges of sonship, God's glorious presence, the special covenants, the giving of the law, the temple service, the promises,
Ephesians 2:12
At that time you were without any connection with Christ; you were aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the sacred compacts made by God's promise, with no hope, and no God in the world.
Romans 9:6
But it is not that God's word has failed. For not everybody that is descended from Israel really belongs to Israel,
Acts 2:39
for the promise belongs to you and your children, as well as to all those who are far away whom the Lord our God may call to Him."
Hebrews 9:1
So indeed the first covenant had its regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.
Matthew 21:33
"Listen to another story. There was once an owner of an estate who planted a vineyard and built a fence around it, and hewed out a wine-vat in it, and built a tower, and rented it to tenant farmers, and then went abroad.
Luke 1:54-55
He has helped His servant Israel, so as to remember mercy,
Luke 1:69-75
and He has made a mighty Saviour for us in the house of His servant David,
John 1:17
For while the law was given through Moses, spiritual blessing and truth have come through Jesus Christ.
John 1:47
Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward Him, and said of him, "Here is a genuine Israelite with no deceit in him!"
Acts 3:25-26
And you are the descendants of the prophets and the heirs of the sacred compact which God made with your forefathers, when He said to Abraham: 'All the families of the earth are to be blessed through your posterity.'
Acts 13:32-33
So now we are bringing you the good news about the promise that was made to our forefathers,
Romans 3:2
They are great from every point of view. In the first place, the Jews are entrusted with the utterances of God.
Romans 8:15
For you do not have a sense of servitude to fill you with dread again, but the consciousness of adopted sons by which we cry, "Abba," that is, "Father."
Hebrews 6:13-17
For when God made His promise to Abraham, He took an oath by Himself, since He had no one greater by whom He could take it,
Hebrews 8:6-10
But, as the case with Him now stands, He has entered upon a priestly service as much superior to theirs as the covenant of which He is the Mediator is superior to theirs, superior because it has been enacted upon superior promises.
Hebrews 9:3
But behind the second curtain is the tent that is called the holy of holies,
Hebrews 9:10
since they deal only with food and drink and various washings, that is, with mere material regulations which are in force only until the time of setting things straight.