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.

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• Eph 2:12That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
• Ps 147:19He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
• Gen 17:2And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
• Rom 9:6Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
• Deut 7:6For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
• Acts 2:39For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.
• Exod 4:22And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
• Heb 9:1Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
• Acts 3:25–26Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
• Rom 8:15For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
• 1 Kgs 8:11So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
• Ps 89:3I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
• Heb 6:13–17For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
• Luke 1:69–75And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
• John 1:17For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
• Deut 14:1Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
• Gen 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
• Jer 31:33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• Heb 9:10Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
• Ps 73:1Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
• Isa 60:19The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
• Luke 1:54–55He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;
• Exod 40:34Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
• Neh 9:13–14Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
• Deut 29:1These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
• John 1:47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
• Exod 19:3–6And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
• Jer 33:20–25Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
• Num 7:89And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.
• Matt 21:33Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
• Ps 89:34My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
• Deut 31:16And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
• Gen 17:10This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
• Isa 5:2And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
• Gen 15:18In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
• Exod 24:7–8And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.
• Ps 90:16Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
• Isa 46:3Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
• Ps 78:61And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.
• Heb 8:6–10But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

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