Romans 9:4

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Romans 9:4

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Summary

Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

Are israelites

The adoption

And the glory

Isaiah 60:19

Covenants

The giving

John 1:17

The service

Promises

General references

Luke 15:31

Bible References

Are israelites

But it is not as if the word of God was without effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel:

And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.

And Moses went up to God, and the voice of the Lord came to him from the mountain, saying, Say to the family of Jacob, and give word to the children of Israel:

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

Truly, God is good to Israel, even to such as are clean in heart.

But as for you, Israel, my servant, and you, Jacob, whom I have taken for myself, the seed of Abraham my friend:

Give ear to me, O family of Jacob, and all the rest of the people of Israel, who have been supported by me from their birth, and have been my care from their earliest days:

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false.

The adoption

And you are to say to Pharaoh, The Lord says, Israel is the first of my sons:

You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;

They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.

When Israel was a child he was dear to me; and I took my son out of Egypt.

And the glory

And when Moses went into the Tent of meeting to have talk with him, then the Voice came to his ears from over the cover which was on the ark of witness, from between the two winged ones. And he had talk with him.

And she gave the child the name of Ichabod, saying, The glory has gone from Israel: because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

So that the priests were not able to keep their places to do their work because of the cloud, for the house of the Lord was full of the glory of the Lord.

And he let his strength be taken prisoner, and gave his glory into the hands of his hater.

The sun will not be your light by day, and the moon will no longer be bright for you by night: but the Lord will be to you an eternal light, and your God your glory.

Covenants

In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

And I will make an agreement between you and me, and your offspring will be greatly increased.

And he took the book of the agreement, reading it in the hearing of the people: and they said, Everything which the Lord has said we will do, and we will keep his laws.

And the Lord said to Moses, Put all these words in writing; for on them is based the agreement which I will make with you.

These are the words of the agreement which Moses was ordered by the Lord to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the agreement which he made with them in Horeb.

And the Lord said to Moses, Now you are going to rest with your fathers; and this people will be false to me, uniting themselves to the strange gods of the land where they are going; they will be turned away from me and will not keep the agreement I have made with them.

Keep them in mind, O my God, because they have put shame on the priests' name and on the agreement of the priests and the Levites.

I have made an agreement with the man of my selection, I have made an oath to David my servant;

But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

The Lord has said: If it is possible for my agreement of the day and the night to be broken, so that day and night no longer come at their fixed times,

You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.

But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things.

The giving

Much in every way: first of all because the words of God were given to them.

And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders:

He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.

And I gave them my rules and made clear to them my orders, which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him.

For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ.

The service

And when you come into the land which the Lord will make yours, as he gave his word, you are to keep this act of worship.

And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.

Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

And inside the second veil was the place which is named the Holy of holies;

Promises

His help he has given to Israel, his servant, so that he might keep in mind his mercy to Abraham and his seed for ever,

For the word of God is for you and for your children and for all those who are far off, even all those who may be marked out by the Lord our God.

You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.

And we are giving you the good news of the undertaking made to the fathers,

That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.

For when God made his oath to Abraham, because there was no greater oath, he made it by himself,

General references

And he said to him, Son, you are with me at all times, and all I have is yours.