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 though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,

Then he said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed."

while Moses went up to God. The LORD called to him out of the mountain, saying, "Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel:

"For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;

"Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from before your birth, carried from the womb;

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!"

The adoption

Then you shall say to Pharaoh, 'Thus says the LORD, Israel is my firstborn son,

"You are the sons of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.

With weeping they shall come, and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

And the glory

And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and it spoke to him.

And she named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel!" because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.

So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.

and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe.

Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to their children.

The sun shall be no more your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give you light; but the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.

Covenants

On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly."

Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, "All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient."

And the LORD said to Moses, "Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that he had made with them at Horeb.

And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.

Remember them, O my God, because they have desecrated the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

You have said, "I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn to David my servant:

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

"Thus says the LORD: If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night will not come at their appointed time,

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.'

But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.

The giving

Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.

You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and rules to Israel.

I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live.

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

The service

And when you come to the land that the LORD will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service.

He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

"Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.

Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place,

Promises

He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy,

For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself."

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.'

And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers,

remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,

General references

And he said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.