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Romans 9:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

They are Israelites,  and to them belong the adoption,  the glory,  the covenants,  the giving of the law,  the temple service,  and the promises.

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At that time you were without Christ, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of promise,  without hope  and without God in the world.


Now it is not as though the word of God has failed,  because not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.


I will set up my covenant between me and you, and I will multiply you greatly.’


For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off,  as many as the Lord our God will call.’


For you are a holy people  belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be his own possession  out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.


And you will say to Pharaoh: This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son.


Now the first covenant also had regulations for ministry and an earthly sanctuary.


and because of the cloud, the priests were not able to continue ministering, for the glory  of the Lord filled the temple.


For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear.  Instead, you received the Spirit of adoption,  by whom we cry out, ‘Abba,  Father! ’


for the law was given through Moses;  grace and truth  came through Jesus Christ.


‘Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days’ #– #the Lord’s declaration. ‘I will put my teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.


‘You are sons of the Lord your God;  do not cut yourselves or make a bald spot on your head  on behalf of the dead,


I will confirm my covenant that is between me and you and your future offspring throughout their generations. It is a permanent covenant  to be your God and the God of your offspring after you.


They are physical regulations and only deal with food, drink, and various washings imposed until the time of the new order.


Behind the second curtain was a tent called the most holy place.


Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming towards him and said about him, ‘Here truly is an Israelite   in whom there is no deceit.’


‘Listen   to another parable:   There was a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence round it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower.   He leased it to tenant farmers and went away.


When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.


Isn’t Ephraim a precious son to me, a delightful child? Whenever I speak against him, I certainly still think about him. Therefore, my inner being yearns for him; I will truly have compassion on him. This is the  Lord’s declaration.


They will come weeping, but I will bring them back with consolation.  , I will lead them to wadis filled with water, by a smooth way where they will not stumble, for I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is my firstborn.


The sun will no longer be your light by day, and the brightness of the moon will not shine on you. The Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your splendour.


‘Listen to me, house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.


But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham, my friend   –


He broke up the soil, cleared it of stones, and planted it with the finest vines. He built a tower in the middle of it and even dug out a winepress there. He expected  it to yield good grapes, but it yielded worthless grapes.


Remember them, my God, for defiling the priesthood as well as the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.


The Lord said to Moses, ‘You are about to rest with your ancestors,  and these people will soon prostitute themselves with the foreign gods  of the land they are entering. They will abandon me  and break the covenant  I have made with them.


I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,


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 he had made with them at Horeb.


When Moses entered the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord, he heard the voice speaking to him  from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim.  He spoke to him that way.


The cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.


The Lord also said to Moses, ‘Write  down these words, for I have made a covenant with you and with Israel based on these words.’


When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as he promised, you are to observe this ceremony.


‘Your name will no longer be Jacob,’  he said. ‘It will be Israel  because you have struggled with God  and with men and have prevailed.’


This is my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you, which you are to keep: every one of your males must be circumcised.


On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, ‘I give this land to your offspring,  from the Brook of Egypt  to the great river, the River Euphrates:


Considerable in every way. First, they were entrusted  with the very words of God.


He declared his covenant  to you. He commanded you to follow the Ten Commandments,  which he wrote on two stone tablets.


The appearance of the brilliant light all around was like that of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day.  This was the appearance of the likeness of the Lord’s glory.  When I saw it, I fell face down and heard a voice speaking.


Are they Hebrews?  So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the descendants of Abraham?  So am I.


Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say ‘and to seeds’, as though referring to many, but referring to one, and to your seed,   , who is Christ.


The cherubim of glory were above the ark overshadowing the mercy seat. It is not possible to speak about these things in detail at the moment.


With these things prepared like this, the priests enter the first room repeatedly, performing their ministry.





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