Romans 9:4 Cross References - WNT

⁴ To them belongs recognition as God's sons, and they have His glorious Presence and the Covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the Temple service, and the ancient Promises.

³³ "Listen to another parable. There was a householder who planted a vineyard, made a fence round it, dug a wine-tank in it, and built a strong lodge; then let the place to vine-dressers, and went abroad.

⁵⁴ His servant Israel He has helped, Remembering His compassion-- ⁵⁵ In fulfillment of His promises to our forefathers--For Abraham and his posterity for ever."

⁶⁹ And has raised up a mighty Deliverer for us In the house of David His servant-- ⁷⁰ As He has spoken from all time by the lips of His holy Prophets-- ⁷¹ To deliver us from our foes and from the power of all who hate us. ⁷² He dealt pitifully with our forefathers, And remembered His holy covenant, ⁷³ The oath which He swore to Abraham our forefather, ⁷⁴ To grant us to be rescued from the power of our foes And so render worship to Him free from fear, ⁷⁵ In piety and uprightness before Him all our days.

¹⁷ For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, and said of him, "Look! here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceitfulness!"

³⁹ For to you belongs the promise, and to your children, and to all who are far off, whoever the Lord our God may call."

²⁵ "You are the heirs of the Prophets, and of the Covenant which God made with your forefathers when He said to Abraham, 'AND THROUGH YOUR POSTERITY ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE WORLD SHALL BE BLESSED.' ²⁶ It is to you first that God, after raising His Servant from the grave, has sent Him to bless you, by causing every one of you to turn from your wickedness."

³² And we bring you the Good News about the promise made to our forefathers, ³³ that God has amply fulfilled it to our children in raising up Jesus; as it is also written in the second Psalm, 'THOU ART MY SON: TO-DAY I HAVE BECOME THY FATHER.'

² The privilege is great from every point of view. First of all, because the Jews were entrusted with God's truth.

¹⁵ You have not for the second time acquired the consciousness of being--a consciousness which fills you with terror. But you have acquired a deep inward conviction of having been adopted as sons--a conviction which prompts us to cry aloud, "Abba! our Father!"

⁶ Not however that God's word has failed; for all who have sprung from Israel do not count as Israel,

¹² At that time you were living apart from Christ, estranged from the Commonwealth of Israel, with no share by birth in the Covenants which are based on the Promises, and you had no hope and no God, in all the world.

¹³ For when God gave the promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself, ¹⁴ saying, "ASSUREDLY I WILL BLESS YOU AND BLESS YOU, I WILL INCREASE YOU AND INCREASE YOU." ¹⁵ And so, as the result of patient waiting, our forefather obtained what God had promised. ¹⁶ For men swear by what is greater than themselves; and with them an oath in confirmation of a statement always puts an end to a dispute. ¹⁷ In the same way, since it was God's desire to display more convincingly to the heirs of the promise how unchangeable His purpose was,

⁶ But, as a matter of fact, the ministry which Christ has obtained is all the nobler a ministry, in that He is at the same time the negotiator of a sublimer covenant, based upon sublimer promises. ⁷ For if that first Covenant had been free from imperfection, there would have been no attempt to introduce another. ⁸ For, being dissatisfied with His people, God says, "'THERE ARE DAYS COMING,' SAYS THE LORD, 'WHEN I WILL ESTABLISH WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH A NEW COVENANT-- ⁹ A COVENANT UNLIKE THE ONE WHICH I MADE WITH THEIR FOREFATHERS ON THE DAY WHEN I TOOK THEM BY THE HAND TO LEAD THEM OUT FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT; FOR THEY WOULD NOT REMAIN FAITHFUL TO THAT.' 'SO I TURNED FROM THEM,' SAYS THE LORD. ¹⁰ 'BUT THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AFTER THOSE DAYS,' SAYS THE LORD: I WILL PUT MY LAWS INTO THEIR MINDS AND WILL WRITE THEM UPON THEIR HEARTS. AND I WILL INDEED BE THEIR GOD AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.

¹ Now even the first Covenant had regulations for divine worship, and had also its sanctuary--a sanctuary belonging to this world.

³ And behind the second veil was a sacred tent called the Holy of holies.

¹⁰ For their efficacy depends only on meats and drinks and various washings, ceremonies pertaining to the body and imposed until a time of reformation.