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Rom. 9:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoptionc, and the gloryd, and the δcovenantsf, and the giving of the lawg, and theh service of God, and the promisesi;

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Deut. 7:6• ⁶For a holy people art thou unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be unto him a people for a possession, above all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth. (Deut. 7:6)

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Psa. 90:16• ¹⁶Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy majesty unto their sons. (Psa. 90:16)

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Isa. 60:19• ¹⁹The sun shall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee; but Jehovah shall be thine everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. (Isa. 60:19)

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Gen. 17:2• ²And I will set my covenant between me and thee, and will very greatly multiply thee. (Gen. 17:2)

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Deut. 29:14• ¹⁴Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath, (Deut. 29:14)

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Jer. 31:33• ³³For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and will write it in their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. (Jer. 31:33)

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or, testaments.

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Rom. 3:2• ²Much every way: and first, indeed, that to them were entrusted the oracles of God. (Rom. 3:2)

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Psa. 147:19• ¹⁹He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. (Psa. 147:19)

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Ex. 12:25• ²⁵And it shall come to pass, when ye are come into the land that Jehovah will give you, as he has promised, that ye shall keep this service. (Ex. 12:25)

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Eph. 2:12• ¹²that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: (Eph. 2:12)

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are Israelites.

Rom. 9:6• ⁶Not however as though the word of God had failed; for not all are Israel which are of Israel; (Rom. 9:6)

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Gen. 32:28• ²⁸And he said, Thy name shall not henceforth be called Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast wrestled with God, and with men, and hast prevailed. (Gen. 32:28)

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Ex. 19:3‑6• ³And Moses went up to God, and Jehovah called to him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:
⁴Ye have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, and how I have borne you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself.
⁵And now, if ye will hearken to my voice indeed and keep my covenant, then shall ye be my own possession out of all the peoples--for all the earth is mine--
⁶and ye shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak to the children of Israel. (Ex. 19:3‑6)

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Deut. 7:6• ⁶For a holy people art thou unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be unto him a people for a possession, above all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth. (Deut. 7:6)

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Psa. 73:1• ¹A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are of a pure heart. (Psa. 73:1)

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Isa. 41:8• ⁸But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, my friend (Isa. 41:8)

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Isa. 46:3• ³Hearken unto me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, ye who have been borne from the belly, who have been carried from the womb: (Isa. 46:3)

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John 1:47• ⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him, Behold one truly an Israelite, in whom there is no guile. (John 1:47)

the adoption.

Ex. 4:22• ²²And thou shalt say to Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah: Israel is my son, my firstborn. (Ex. 4:22)

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Deut. 14:1• ¹Ye are sons of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for a dead person. (Deut. 14:1)

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Jer. 31:9,20• ⁹They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them; I will cause them to walk by water-brooks, in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble; for I will be a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
²⁰Is Ephraim a dear son unto me? is he a child of delights? For whilst I have been speaking against him, I do constantly remember him still. Therefore my bowels are troubled for him: I will certainly have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 31:9,20)

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Hos. 11:1• ¹When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. (Hos. 11:1)

and the glory.

Num. 7:89• ⁸⁹And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with Him, then he heard the voice speaking to him from off the mercy-seat which was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubim; and he spoke to Him. (Num. 7:89)

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1 Sam. 4:21‑22• ²¹And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel; because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
²²And she said, The glory is departed from Israel, for the ark of God is taken. (1 Sam. 4:21‑22)

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1 Kings 8:11• ¹¹and the priests could not stand to do their service because of the cloud; for the glory of Jehovah had filled the house of Jehovah. (1 Kings 8:11)

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Psa. 63:2• ²To see thy power and thy glory, as I have beheld thee in the sanctuary; (Psa. 63:2)

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Psa. 78:61• ⁶¹And gave his strength into captivity, and his glory into the hand of the oppressor; (Psa. 78:61)

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Psa. 90:16• ¹⁶Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy majesty unto their sons. (Psa. 90:16)

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Isa. 60:19• ¹⁹The sun shall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee; but Jehovah shall be thine everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. (Isa. 60:19)

covenants.

or, testaments.

Gen. 15:18• ¹⁸On the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates; (Gen. 15:18)

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Gen. 17:2,7,10• ²And I will set my covenant between me and thee, and will very greatly multiply thee.
⁷And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
¹⁰This is my covenant which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee--that every male among you be circumcised. (Gen. 17:2,7,10)

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Ex. 24:7‑8• ⁷And he took the book of the covenant, and read it in the ears of the people; and they said, All that Jehovah has said will we do, and obey!
⁸And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant that Jehovah has made with you concerning all these words. (Ex. 24:7‑8)

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Ex. 34:27• ²⁷And Jehovah said to Moses, Write thee these words; for after the tenor of these words have I made a covenant with thee and with Israel. (Ex. 34:27)

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Deut. 29:1• ¹These are the words of the covenant that Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that he made with them in Horeb. (Deut. 29:1)

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Deut. 31:16• ¹⁶And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the strange gods of the land into which they enter, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. (Deut. 31:16)

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Neh. 13:29• ²⁹Remember them, my God, for they are polluters of the priesthood, and of the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites! (Neh. 13:29)

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Psa. 89:3,34• ³I have made a covenant with mine elect, I have sworn unto David my servant:
³⁴My covenant will I not profane, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. (Psa. 89:3,34)

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Jer. 31:33• ³³For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and will write it in their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. (Jer. 31:33)

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Jer. 33:20‑25• ²⁰Thus saith Jehovah: If ye can break my covenant in respect of the day, and my covenant in respect of the night, so that there should not be day and night in their season,
²¹then shall also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites, the priests, my ministers.
²²As the host of the heavens cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
²³And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying,
²⁴Hast thou not seen what this people have spoken, saying, The two families that Jehovah had chosen, he hath even cast them off? And they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
²⁵Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night stand not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of the heavens and the earth, (Jer. 33:20‑25)

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Acts 3:25• ²⁵*Ye* are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God appointed to our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. (Acts 3:25)

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Heb. 8:6‑10• ⁶But now he has got a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is mediator of a better covenant, which is established on the footing of better promises.
⁷For if that first was faultless, place had not been sought for a second.
⁸For finding fault, he says to them, Behold, days come, saith the Lord, and I will consummate a new covenant as regards the house of Israel, and as regards the house of Juda;
⁹not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers in the day of my taking their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because *they* did not continue in my covenant, and *I* did not regard them, saith the Lord.
¹⁰Because this is the covenant that I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their mind, I will write them also upon their hearts; and I will be to them for God, and *they* shall be to me for people. (Heb. 8:6‑10)

the giving.

Rom. 3:2• ²Much every way: and first, indeed, that to them were entrusted the oracles of God. (Rom. 3:2)

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Neh. 9:13‑14• ¹³And thou camest down on mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from the heavens, and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.
¹⁴And thou madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and prescribedst for them commandments and statutes and a law, through Moses thy servant. (Neh. 9:13‑14)

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Psa. 147:19• ¹⁹He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. (Psa. 147:19)

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Ezek. 20:11‑12• ¹¹And I gave them my statutes, and made known unto them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them.
¹²And I also gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Jehovah that hallow them. (Ezek. 20:11‑12)

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John 1:17• ¹⁷For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth subsists through Jesus Christ. (John 1:17)

the service.

Ex. 12:25• ²⁵And it shall come to pass, when ye are come into the land that Jehovah will give you, as he has promised, that ye shall keep this service. (Ex. 12:25)

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Isa. 5:2• ²And he dug it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine; and he built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes. (Isa. 5:2)

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Matt. 21:33• ³³Hear another parable: There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country. (Matt. 21:33)

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Heb. 9:3,10• ³but after the second veil a tabernacle which is called Holy of holies,
¹⁰consisting only of meats and drinks and divers washings, ordinances of flesh, imposed until the time of setting things right. (Heb. 9:3,10)

promises.

Luke 1:54‑55,69‑75• ⁵⁴He has helped Israel his servant, in order to remember mercy,
⁵⁵(as he spoke to our fathers,) to Abraham and to his seed for ever.
⁶⁹and raised up a horn of deliverance for us in the house of David his servant;
⁷⁰as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been since the world began;
⁷¹deliverance from our enemies and out of the hand of all who hate us;
⁷²to fulfil mercy with our fathers and remember his holy covenant,
⁷³the oath which he swore to Abraham our father,
⁷⁴to give us, that, saved out of the hand of our enemies, we should serve him without fear
⁷⁵in piety and righteousness before him all our days. (Luke 1:54‑55,69‑75)

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Acts 2:39• ³⁹For to you is the promise and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God may call. (Acts 2:39)

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Acts 3:25‑26• ²⁵*Ye* are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God appointed to our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
²⁶To you first God, having raised up his servant, has sent him, blessing you in turning each one of you from your wickedness. (Acts 3:25‑26)

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Acts 13:32‑33• ³²And *we* declare unto you the glad tidings of the promise made to the fathers,
³³that God has fulfilled this to us their children, having raised up Jesus; as it is also written in the second psalm, *Thou* art my Son: this day have *I* begotten thee. (Acts 13:32‑33)

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Eph. 2:12• ¹²that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: (Eph. 2:12)

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Heb. 6:13‑17• ¹³For God, having promised to Abraham, since he had no greater to swear by, swore by himself,
¹⁴saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;
¹⁵and thus, having had long patience, he got the promise.
¹⁶For men indeed swear by a greater, and with them the oath is a term to all dispute, as making matters sure.
¹⁷Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath, (Heb. 6:13‑17)

• {v.4-5} To prove that he had no intention of belittling the privileges of Israel, he lists eight things that had made Israel the most favoured nation on the earth (Deut. 4:7). (“The Sovereignty of God Israel's Past Election: Romans 9” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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who are Israelites; whose is the adoptionc, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the serviced, and the promises;

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As ch. 8.23.

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As latreuo. See Note l to Matt. 4.10.

W. Kelly Translation

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which are Israelites, whose [is] the adoption and the glory and the covenants and the law-giving and the service and the promises;