Romans 9:4 Cross References
Romans 9:4
4: They are the people of Israel, chosen to be God's special children. God revealed his glory to them. He made covenants with them and gave his law to them. They have the privilege of worshiping him and receiving his wonderful promises.
Ephesians 2:12
- In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from God's people, Israel, and you did not know the promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope.
Psalms 147:19
- He has revealed his words to Jacob, his principles and laws to Israel.
Genesis 17:2
- I will make a covenant with you, by which I will guarantee to make you into a mighty nation."
Exodus 4:22
- Then you will tell him, `This is what the LORD says: Israel is my firstborn son.
1 Kings 8:11
- The priests could not continue their work because the glorious presence of the LORD filled the Temple.
Romans 9:6
- Well then, has God failed to fulfill his promise to the Jews? No, for not everyone born into a Jewish family is truly a Jew!
Deuteronomy 7:6
- For you are a holy people, who belong to the LORD your God. Of all the people on earth, the LORD your God has chosen you to be his own special treasure.
Deuteronomy 14:1
- "Since you are the people of the LORD your God, never cut yourselves or shave the hair above your foreheads for the sake of the dead.
Hebrews 9:1
- Now in that first covenant between God and Israel, there were regulations for worship and a sacred tent here on earth.
Acts 2:39
- This promise is to you and to your children, and even to the Gentiles--all who have been called by the Lord our God."
Hosea 11:1
- "When Israel was a child, I loved him as a son, and I called my son out of Egypt.
Psalms 89:34
- No, I will not break my covenant; I will not take back a single word I said.
Acts 3:25
- You are the children of those prophets, and you are included in the covenant God promised to your ancestors. For God said to Abraham, 'Through your descendants all the families on earth will be blessed.'
- When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you people of Israel, to bless you by turning each of you back from your sinful ways."
Acts 13:32
- "And now Barnabas and I are here to bring you this Good News. God's promise to our ancestors has come true in our own time,
- in that God raised Jesus. This is what the second psalm is talking about when it says concerning Jesus, 'You are my Son. Today I have become your Father. '
Numbers 7:89
- Whenever Moses went into the Tabernacle to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the Ark's cover--the place of atonement--that rests on the Ark of the Covenant. The LORD spoke to him from there.
Exodus 40:34
- Then the cloud covered the Tabernacle, and the glorious presence of the LORD filled it.
Jeremiah 31:33
- "But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel on that day," says the LORD. "I will put my laws in their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Psalms 73:1
- Truly God is good to Israel, to those whose hearts are pure.
John 1:17
- For the law was given through Moses; God's unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 6:13
- For example, there was God's promise to Abraham. Since there was no one greater to swear by, God took an oath in his own name, saying:
- "I will certainly bless you richly, and I will multiply your descendants into countless millions."
- Then Abraham waited patiently, and he received what God had promised.
- When people take an oath, they call on someone greater than themselves to hold them to it. And without any question that oath is binding.
- God also bound himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that he would never change his mind.
Jeremiah 31:20
- "Is not Israel still my son, my darling child?" asks the LORD. "I had to punish him, but I still love him. I long for him and surely will have mercy on him.
Isaiah 46:3
- "Listen to me, all you who are left in Israel. I created you and have cared for you since before you were born.
Isaiah 5:2
- He plowed the land, cleared its stones, and planted it with choice vines. In the middle he built a watchtower and carved a winepress in the nearby rocks. Then he waited for a harvest of sweet grapes, but the grapes that grew were wild and sour.
Nehemiah 9:13
- "You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke to them from heaven. You gave them regulations and instructions that were just, and laws and commands that were true.
- You instructed them concerning the laws of your holy Sabbath. And you commanded them, through Moses your servant, to obey all your commands, laws, and instructions.
Ezekiel 20:11
- There I gave them my laws so they could live by keeping them. Yes, all those who keep them will live!
- And I gave them my Sabbath days of rest as a sign between them and me. It was to remind them that I, the LORD, had set them apart to be holy, making them my special people.
Psalms 90:16
- Let us see your miracles again; let our children see your glory at work.
Matthew 21:33
- "Now listen to this story. A certain landowner planted a vineyard, built a wall around it, dug a pit for pressing out the grape juice, and built a lookout tower. Then he leased the vineyard to tenant farmers and moved to another country.
Psalms 89:3
- The LORD said, "I have made a solemn agreement with David, my chosen servant. I have sworn this oath to him:
Luke 1:54
- And how he has helped his servant Israel! He has not forgotten his promise to be merciful.
- For he promised our ancestors--Abraham and his children--to be merciful to them forever."
Isaiah 60:19
- "No longer will you need the sun or moon to give you light, for the LORD your God will be your everlasting light, and he will be your glory.
Exodus 34:27
- And the LORD said to Moses, "Write down all these instructions, for they represent the terms of my covenant with you and with Israel."
Deuteronomy 29:14
- But you are not the only ones with whom the LORD is making this covenant with its obligations.
Psalms 78:61
- He allowed the Ark of his might to be captured; he surrendered his glory into enemy hands.
Genesis 17:10
- This is the covenant that you and your descendants must keep: Each male among you must be circumcised;
Nehemiah 13:29
- Remember them, O my God, for they have defiled the priesthood and the promises and vows of the priests and Levites.
Genesis 32:28
- "Your name will no longer be Jacob," the man told him. "It is now Israel, because you have struggled with both God and men and have won."
Exodus 12:25
- When you arrive in the land the LORD has promised to give you, you will continue to celebrate this festival.
Romans 8:15
- So you should not be like cowering, fearful slaves. You should behave instead like God's very own children, adopted into his family--calling him "Father, dear Father."
Jeremiah 31:9
- Tears of joy will stream down their faces, and I will lead them home with great care. They will walk beside quiet streams and not stumble. For I am Israel's father, and Ephraim is my oldest child.
Hebrews 9:10
- For that old system deals only with food and drink and ritual washing--external regulations that are in effect only until their limitations can be corrected.
Hebrews 8:6
- But our High Priest has been given a ministry that is far superior to the ministry of those who serve under the old laws, for he is the one who guarantees for us a better covenant with God, based on better promises.
- If the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need for a second covenant to replace it.
- But God himself found fault with the old one when he said: "The day will come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah.
- This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and led them out of the land of Egypt. They did not remain faithful to my covenant, so I turned my back on them, says the Lord.
- But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel on that day, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds so they will understand them, and I will write them on their hearts so they will obey them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Romans 3:2
- Yes, being a Jew has many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the whole revelation of God.
Exodus 24:7
- Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They all responded again, "We will do everything the LORD has commanded. We will obey."
- Then Moses sprinkled the blood from the basins over the people and said, "This blood confirms the covenant the LORD has made with you in giving you these laws."
Luke 1:69
- He has sent us a mighty Savior from the royal line of his servant David,
- just as he promised through his holy prophets long ago.
- Now we will be saved from our enemies and from all who hate us.
- He has been merciful to our ancestors by remembering his sacred covenant with them,
- the covenant he gave to our ancestor Abraham.
Deuteronomy 31:16
- The LORD said to Moses, "You are about to die and join your ancestors. After you are gone, these people will begin worshiping foreign gods, the gods of the land where they are going. They will abandon me and break the covenant I have made with them.
Exodus 19:3
- Then Moses climbed the mountain to appear before God. The LORD called out to him from the mountain and said, "Give these instructions to the descendants of Jacob, the people of Israel:
- `You have seen what I did to the Egyptians. You know how I brought you to myself and carried you on eagle's wings.
- Now if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own special treasure from among all the nations of the earth; for all the earth belongs to me.
- And you will be to me a kingdom of priests, my holy nation.' Give this message to the Israelites."
Isaiah 41:8
- "But as for you, Israel my servant, Jacob my chosen one, descended from my friend Abraham,
John 1:47
- As they approached, Jesus said, "Here comes an honest man--a true son of Israel."
Genesis 17:7
- "I will continue this everlasting covenant between us, generation after generation. It will continue between me and your offspring forever. And I will always be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
1 Samuel 4:21
- She named the child Ichabod--"Where is the glory?"--murmuring, "Israel's glory is gone." She named him this because the Ark of God had been captured and because her husband and her father-in-law were dead.
- Then she said, "The glory has departed from Israel, for the Ark of God has been captured."
Jeremiah 33:20
- "If you can break my covenant with the day and the night so that they do not come on their usual schedule,
- only then will my covenant with David, my servant, be broken. Only then will he no longer have a descendant to reign on his throne. The same is true for my covenant with the Levitical priests who minister before me.
- And as the stars cannot be counted and the sand on the seashores cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David, my servant, and the Levites who minister before me."
- The LORD gave another message to Jeremiah. He said,
- "Have you heard what people are saying?--`The LORD chose Judah and Israel and then abandoned them!' They are sneering and saying that Israel is not worthy to be counted as a nation.
Psalms 63:2
- I have seen you in your sanctuary and gazed upon your power and glory.
Genesis 15:18
- So the LORD made a covenant with Abram that day and said, "I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River--
Hebrews 9:3
- Then there was a curtain, and behind the curtain was the second room called the Most Holy Place.
Deuteronomy 29:1
- These are the terms of the covenant the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites while they were in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Mount Sinai.