Romans 9:4

New English Translation

who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

Cross References

Genesis 15:18

That day the Lord made a covenant with Abram: “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River –

Genesis 17:10

This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.

Genesis 17:2

Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants.”

Genesis 17:7

I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Genesis 32:28

“No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him, “but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”

1 Kings 8:11

The priests could not carry out their duties because of the cloud; the Lord’s glory filled his temple.

Nehemiah 13:29

Please remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, the covenant of the priesthood, and the Levites.

Psalm 147:19

He proclaims his word to Jacob, his statutes and regulations to Israel.

Psalm 63:2

Yes, in the sanctuary I have seen you, and witnessed your power and splendor.

Psalm 73:1

Certainly God is good to Israel, and to those whose motives are pure!

Psalm 78:61

He allowed the symbol of his strong presence to be captured; he gave the symbol of his splendor into the hand of the enemy.

Psalm 89:3

The Lord said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have made a promise on oath to David, my servant:

Psalm 89:34

I will not break my covenant or go back on what I promised.

Psalm 90:16

May your servants see your work! May their sons see your majesty!

Exodus 12:25

When you enter the land that the Lord will give to you, just as he said, you must observe this ceremony.

Exodus 34:27

The Lord said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

Exodus 4:22

You must say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Israel is my son, my firstborn,

Exodus 40:34

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

Isaiah 41:8

“You, my servant Israel, Jacob whom I have chosen, offspring of Abraham my friend,

Isaiah 46:3

“Listen to me, O family of Jacob, all you who are left from the family of Israel, you who have been carried from birth, you who have been supported from the time you left the womb.

Isaiah 5:2

He built a hedge around it, removed its stones, and planted a vine. He built a tower in the middle of it, and constructed a winepress. He waited for it to produce edible grapes, but it produced sour ones instead.

Isaiah 60:19

The sun will no longer supply light for you by day, nor will the moon’s brightness shine on you; the Lord will be your permanent source of light – the splendor of your God will shine upon you.

Jeremiah 31:20

Indeed, the people of Israel are my dear children. They are the children I take delight in. For even though I must often rebuke them, I still remember them with fondness. So I am deeply moved with pity for them and will surely have compassion on them. I, the Lord, affirm it!

Jeremiah 31:33

“But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel after I plant them back in the land,” says the Lord. “I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts and minds. I will be their God and they will be my people.

Jeremiah 31:9

They will come back shedding tears of contrition. I will bring them back praying prayers of repentance. I will lead them besides streams of water, along smooth paths where they will never stumble. I will do this because I am Israel’s father; Ephraim is my firstborn son.’”

Ezekiel 1:28

like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds after the rain. This was the appearance of the surrounding brilliant light; it looked like the glory of the Lord. When I saw it, I threw myself face down, and I heard a voice speaking.

Hosea 11:1

When Israel was a young man, I loved him like a son, and I summoned my son out of Egypt.

Numbers 7:89

Now when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the atonement lid that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim. Thus he spoke to him.

Matthew 21:33

“Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.

John 1:17

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed, “Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”

Acts 2:39

For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

Romans 3:2

Actually, there are many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.

Romans 8:15

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba, Father.”

Romans 9:6

It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,

2 Corinthians 11:22

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

Galatians 3:16

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant. Scripture does not say, “and to the descendants,” referring to many, but “and to your descendant,” referring to one, who is Christ.

Ephesians 2:12

that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Deuteronomy 14:1

You are children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead.

Deuteronomy 29:1

(28:69) These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.

Deuteronomy 29:14

It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath,

Deuteronomy 31:16

Then the Lord said to Moses, “You are about to die, and then these people will begin to prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land into which they are going. They will reject me and break my covenant that I have made with them.

Deuteronomy 4:13

And he revealed to you the covenant he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments, writing them on two stone tablets.

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.

Hebrews 9:1

Now the first covenant, in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.

Hebrews 9:10

They served only for matters of food and drink and various washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.

Hebrews 9:3

And after the second curtain there was a tent called the holy of holies.

Hebrews 9:5

And above the ark were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Now is not the time to speak of these things in detail.

Hebrews 9:6

So with these things prepared like this, the priests enter continually into the outer tent as they perform their duties.