Romans 3:2 Cross References - Riverside

² Much in every way. First, they were intrusted with the oracles of God.

²⁹ Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.' ³⁰ But he said, 'No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will have a change of heart.' ³¹ Abraham replied, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rises from the dead.'

³⁹ You search the Scriptures because you think that you have in them life eternal, and it is they that testify of me,

³⁸ This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him in Mount Sinai and with our fathers, and he received the living words to give to us.

² which he foretold through his prophets in Holy Scripture,

¹⁸ and know his will and are a judge of things that differ, because you have been taught out of the Law

³ For what if some were faithless, will their faithlessness prevent the faithfulness of God?

⁴ who are Israelites, whose is the sonship and the glory and the covenants and the reception of the law and the worship and the promises;

¹ I SAY then, can it be that God has repudiated his people? Never. For I am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. ² God has not repudiated his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says in the story of Elijah, how he prays to God against Israel?

¹⁵ if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their welcome back be but life from the dead? ¹⁶ If the first fruit was holy, so will the mass be; and if the root was holy, so will be the branches. ¹⁷ If some of the branches were broken off and you, who are a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a sharer in the root and rich sap of the olive, ¹⁸ do not exult over the branches. Even though you exult, it is not you who are supporting the root, but the root is supporting you. ¹⁹ You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in." ²⁰ Certainly, for lack of faith they were broken off, and you are standing by faith. Do not be proud, but be afraid. ²¹ For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. ²² See the kindness and the rigor of God, toward those who fell rigor, but toward you God's kindness, if you continue in his kindness, else you too will be cut off. ²³ And they if they do not continue in their unbelief will be grafted in.

²⁸ According to the good news they are enemies for your sake, but according to the promise they are beloved for their fathers' sake. ²⁹ God never changes his mind about his gifts and his call.

¹⁷ If I do it voluntarily I have a reward, but if reluctantly, I have been charged with a responsibility.

¹⁹ to proclaim that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting against men their sins, and that he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

⁷ But, on the contrary, seeing that I was entrusted with the good news for the uncircumcision as Peter was for the circumcision,

²⁰ O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, turning away from profane and empty talk and contradictions of what is falsely called "knowledge."

¹⁵ and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which can give you wisdom to gain salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All Scripture is divinely inspired and is useful for teaching, for proof, for correction of error, for education in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

¹² For when, considering the time, you ought to be teachers you need to have some one teach you again the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk and not solid food.

¹¹ If any one speaks, let it be as uttering the oracles of God. If any one serves, let it be from the strength that God supplies. Thus in all things let God be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him be glory and strength for the ages of the ages! Amen.

¹⁹ Thus have we the words of the prophets confirmed, and you will do well to give attention to them as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts; ²⁰ since you know this first, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from any one's private interpretation, ²¹ for prophecy never came by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁰ Then I fell down at his feet and worshiped him. But he said to me, "No, no. I am a fellow servant of yours and of your brethren who hold the testimony to Jesus. Worship God. For testimony to Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."

⁶ Then he said to me, "These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets has sent his angel to show to his servants what must soon come to pass.