Romans 9:4

Paul lists Israel's great privileges: adoption, God's glory, the covenants, the law, temple worship, and the promises. These gifts make their unbelief all the more tragic.

Cross-references · 40

• Eph 2:12remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
• Ps 147:19He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.
• Gen 17:2I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.”
• Rom 9:6It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
• Deut 7:6For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
• Acts 2:39This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
• Exod 4:22Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,
• Heb 9:1Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.
• Acts 3:25–26And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’
• Rom 8:15For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
• 1 Kgs 8:11so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.
• Ps 89:3You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:
• Heb 6:13–17When God made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,
• Luke 1:69–75He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,
• John 1:17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
• Deut 14:1You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,
• Gen 17:7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
• Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
• Heb 9:10They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.
• Ps 73:1A Psalm of Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
• Isa 60:19No longer will the sun be your light by day, nor the brightness of the moon shine on your night; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your splendor.
• Luke 1:54–55He has helped His servant Israel, remembering to be merciful,
• Exod 40:34Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
• Neh 9:13–14You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.
• Deut 29:1These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.
• John 1:47When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”
• Exod 19:3–6Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain, “This is what you are to tell the house of Jacob and explain to the sons of Israel:
• Jer 33:20–25“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,
• Num 7:89When Moses entered the Tent of Meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the mercy seat on the ark of the Testimony. Thus the LORD spoke to him.
• Matt 21:33Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
• Ps 89:34I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.
• Deut 31:16And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.
• Gen 17:10This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.
• Isa 5:2He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!
• Gen 15:18On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
• Exod 24:7–8Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”
• Ps 90:16May Your work be shown to Your servants, and Your splendor to their children.
• Isa 46:3“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.
• Ps 78:61He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.
• Heb 8:6–10Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.

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