On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates,
Romans 9:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For they are Israelites, and to them belong God's adoption [as a nation] and the glorious Presence (Shekinah). With them were the special covenants made, to them was the Law given. To them [the temple] worship was revealed and [God's own] promises announced. [Exod. 4:22; Hos. 11:1.] American Standard Version (1901) who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; Common English Bible They are Israelites. The adoption as God’s children, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the worship, and the promises belong to them. Catholic Public Domain Version These are the Israelites, to whom belongs adoption as sons, and the glory and the testament, and the giving and following of the law, and the promises. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who are Israelites, to whom belongeth the adoption as of children, and the glory, and the testament, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises: |
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates,
This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
And I will make my covenant between me and you and will make you exceedingly numerous.”
I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
Then the man said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans and have prevailed.”
so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, the covenant of the priests and the Levites.
So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.
You said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn to my servant David:
I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips.
Let your work be manifest to your servants and your glorious power to their children.
When you come to the land that the Lord will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this observance.
The Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: Israel is my firstborn son.
Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;
Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from your birth, carried from the womb;
He dug it and cleared it of stones and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it and hewed out a wine vat in it; he expected it to yield grapes, but it yielded rotten grapes.
The sun shall no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you by night, but the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he the child in whom I delight? As often as I speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore I am deeply moved for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says the Lord.
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back; I will let them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path where they shall not stumble, for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Like the bow in a cloud on a rainy day, such was the appearance of the splendor all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of someone speaking.
When Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord, he would hear the voice speaking to him from above the cover that was on the ark of the covenant from between the two cherubim; thus it spoke to him.
“Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenants and went away.
The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
When Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, he said of him, “Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”
For the promise is for you, for your children, and for all who are far away, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to him.”
Much, in every way. For in the first place, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba! Father!”
It is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all those descended from Israel are Israelites,
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring; it does not say, “And to offsprings,” as of many, but it says, “And to your offspring,” that is, to one person, who is Christ.
remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
“You are children of the Lord your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave your forelocks for the dead.
These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant that he had made with them at Horeb.
The Lord said to Moses, “Soon you will lie down with your ancestors. Then this people will begin to prostitute themselves to the foreign gods in their midst, the gods of the land into which they are going; they will forsake me, breaking my covenant that I have made with them.
He declared to you his covenant, which he charged you to observe, that is, the ten commandments, and he wrote them on two stone tablets.
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession.
Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary.
but deal only with food and drink and various baptisms, regulations for the body imposed until the time comes to set things right.
above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the cover of the ark. Of these things we cannot speak now in detail.
These preparations having thus been made, the priests go continually into the first tent to carry out their ritual duties,