Romans 3:2

There is great advantage: above all, the Jews were entrusted with the very words of God. Israel's privilege was receiving God's revelation.

Cross-references · 28

• Rom 9:4who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
• Acts 7:38This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,
• Ps 147:19–20He shows his word to Jacob; his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
• Neh 9:13–14“You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
• 1 Cor 9:17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
• 1 Pet 4:11If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
• Heb 5:12For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
• Ezek 20:11–12I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them.
• 2 Tim 3:15–17From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
• Rom 11:15–23For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
• 2 Pet 1:19–21We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:
• Ps 78:4–7We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
• Deut 4:7–8For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
• Rev 22:6He said to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to show to his bondservants the things which must happen soon.”
• Rev 19:10I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”
• Rom 11:1–2I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
• John 5:39“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
• Dan 10:21But I will tell you that which is inscribed in the writing of truth: and there is no one who holds with me against these, but Michael your prince.”
• Rom 3:3For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
• 1 Tim 6:20Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge;
• Rom 2:18and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
• Rom 1:2which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,
• 2 Cor 5:19namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
• Rom 11:28–29Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.
• Gal 2:7but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision
• Luke 16:29–31“But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’
• Isa 8:20Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
• Ps 119:140Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.

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