Romans 15:8

Christ became a servant to the Jews to confirm God's truthfulness by fulfilling the promises made to the patriarchs. The Messiah's ministry vindicates God's faithfulness to His covenant.

Cross-references · 27

• Gal 4:4–5But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
• Matt 15:24But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
• John 1:11He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.
• 2 Cor 1:20For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.
• Acts 3:25–26You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘In your offspring will all the families of the earth be blessed.’
• John 10:16I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
• Rom 3:3For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
• Rom 9:4–5who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
• Rom 15:16that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
• Luke 1:70–73(as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old),
• Rom 11:22See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
• Rom 4:16For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
• Rom 9:23–24and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,
• Rom 11:30For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,
• Eph 2:12that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
• Isa 24:15–16Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!
• Mic 7:20You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
• Rom 3:26to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
• Ps 98:2–3Yahweh has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
• 1 Pet 2:9–10But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
• Luke 1:54–56He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy,
• Acts 13:46Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
• Matt 20:28even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
• 1 Cor 10:29Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?
• 1 Cor 10:19What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
• 1 Cor 1:12Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”
• 1 Cor 15:50Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.

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