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 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.
• Ps 147:19He shows his word to Jacob; his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
• Gen 17:2I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”
• Rom 9:6But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.
• Deut 7:6For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
• Acts 2:39For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”
• Exod 4:22You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,
• Heb 9:1Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.
• 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.’
• Rom 8:15For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
• 1 Kgs 8:11so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.
• Ps 89:3“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,
• Heb 6:13–17For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,
• Luke 1:69–75and 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 were realized through Jesus Christ.
• Deut 14:1You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
• Gen 17:7I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
• Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
• Heb 9:10being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
• Ps 73:1A Psalm by Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
• Isa 60:19The sun will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
• Luke 1:54–55He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy,
• Exod 40:34Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.
• 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,
• Deut 29:1These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
• John 1:47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”
• Exod 19:3–6Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him out of the mountain, saying, “This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:
• Jer 33:20–25“Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;
• Num 7:89When Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with Yahweh, he heard his voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim: and he spoke to him.
• Matt 21:33“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.
• Ps 89:34I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
• Deut 31:16Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where 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 you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.
• Isa 5:2He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
• Gen 15:18In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
• Exod 24:7–8He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient.”
• Ps 90:16Let your work appear to your servants; your glory to their children.
• Isa 46:3“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.
• Ps 78:61and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.
• Heb 8:6–10But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

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