'Says' in the Bible

But it cannot be denied that all that the Law says is addressed to those who are living under the Law, in order that every mouth may be stopped, and that the whole world may await sentence from God.

For what says the Scripture? "And Abraham believed God, and this was placed to his credit as righteousness."

"Blessed," he says, "are those whose iniquities have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered over.

This agrees with the other Scripture which says, "Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated."

So also in Hosea He says, "I will call that nation My People which was not My People, and I will call her beloved who was not beloved.

Even as Isaiah says in an earlier place, "Were it not that the Lord, the God of Hosts, had left us some few descendants, we should have become like Sodom, and have come to resemble Gomorrah."

Moses says that he whose actions conform to the righteousness required by the Law shall live by that righteousness.

The Scripture says, "No one who believes in Him shall have reason to feel ashamed."

But again, did Israel fail to understand? Listen to Moses first. He says, "I will fire you with jealousy against a nation which is no nation, and with fury against a nation devoid of understanding."

While as to Israel he says, "All day long I have stretched out My arms to a self-willed and fault-finding people."

God has not cast off His People whom He knew beforehand. Or are you ignorant of what Scripture says in speaking of Elijah--how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,

And so Scripture says, "God has given them a spirit of drowsiness--eyes to see nothing with and ears to hear nothing with--even until now."

And David says, "Let their very food become a snare and a trap to them, a stumbling-block and a retribution.

Do not be revengeful, my dear friends, but give way before anger; for it is written, "'Revenge belongs to Me: I will pay back,' says the Lord."

for it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to Me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall make confession to God.'"

And again the Psalmist says, "Be glad, ye Gentiles, in company with His People."

And again Isaiah says, "There shall be the Root of Jesse and One who rises up to rule the Gentiles. On Him shall the Gentiles build their hopes."

But, as Scripture says, "Those shall see, to whom no report about Him has hitherto come, and those who until now have not heard shall understand."