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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• ⁶{i}For 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.{/i} (Deut. 7:6)

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Psa. 90:16• ¹⁶Let thy work appear unto thy servants,{HR}And thy majesty to 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 unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. (Isa. 60:19)

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Gen. 17:2• ²And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. (Gen. 17:2)

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

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Jer. 31:33• ³³This shall be 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 write it in their hearts; and 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 in every way; for, first, because they were entrusted with the oracles of God. (Rom. 3:2)

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Psa. 147:19• ¹⁹He showeth his word to Jacob,{HR}His statutes and his judgments to Israel. (Psa. 147:19)

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Ex. 12:25• ²⁵{i}And 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.{/i} (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 from 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 that the word of God hath failed; for not all those that are of Israel [are] Israel; (Rom. 9:6)

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Gen. 32:28• ²⁸And he said, Not Jacob shall be called henceforth thy name, 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• ³{i}And 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:{/i}
⁴{i}Ye have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, and how I have borne you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself.{/i}
⁵Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine,
⁶{i}and 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.{/i} (Ex. 19:3‑6)

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Deut. 7:6• ⁶{i}For 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.{/i} (Deut. 7:6)

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Psa. 73:1• ¹A psalm of Asaph.{HR}Truly God [is] good to Israel,{HR}To the pure of 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, who have been borne [by me] 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 saith of him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. (John 1:47)

the adoption.

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

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Deut. 14:1• ¹{i}Ye are sons of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for a dead person.{/i} (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 the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
²⁰Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely 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 called my son out of Egypt. (Hos. 11:1)

and the glory.

Num. 7:89• ⁸⁹{i}And 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.{/i} (Num. 7:89)

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1 Sam. 4:21‑22• ²¹And she named the child I-chabod, 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• ¹¹{i}and the priests could not stand to do their service because of the cloud; for the glory of Jehovah had filled the house of Jehovah.{/i} (1 Kings 8:11)

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Psa. 63:2• ²So as I have beheld thee in the holy place,{HR}To see thy power and thy glory; (Psa. 63:2)

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Psa. 78:61• ⁶¹And gave his strength into captivity,{HR}And his beauty into the oppressor's hand. (Psa. 78:61)

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Psa. 90:16• ¹⁶Let thy work appear unto thy servants,{HR}And thy majesty to 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 unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. (Isa. 60:19)

covenants.

or, testaments.

Gen. 15:18• ¹⁸{i}On the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying,{/i} Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates, (Gen. 15:18)

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Gen. 17:2,7,10• ²And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
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 unto thee and to thy seed after thee.
¹⁰This is my covenant which ye shall keep, between me and you, and thy seed after thee: every man-child among you shall be circumcised. (Gen. 17:2,7,10)

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Ex. 24:7‑8• ⁷{i}And 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!{/i}
⁸{i}And 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.{/i} (Ex. 24:7‑8)

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Ex. 34:27• ²⁷{i}And 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.{/i} (Ex. 34:27)

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

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Deut. 31:16• ¹⁶{i}And 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.{/i} (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 [one],{HR}I have sworn to David my servant.
³⁴Nor will I profane my covenant,{HR}Nor change what is gone out of my lips. (Psa. 89:3,34)

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Jer. 31:33• ³³This shall be 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 write it in their hearts; and 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 of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
²¹then may 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 heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
²³Moreover the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying,
²⁴Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovah hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
²⁵Thus saith Jehovah, If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; (Jer. 33:20‑25)

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Acts 3:25• ²⁵Ye are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God covenanted with our fathers, saying unto 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 hath obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is mediator of a better covenant which hath been enacted upon better promises.
⁷For if that first was faultless, no place had been sought for a second.
⁸For finding fault he saith to them, Behold, days come, saith Jehovah, and I will make a new covenant on the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
⁹not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in a day when I took their hand to lead them out of Egypt's land; because they continued not in my covenant, and I disregarded them, saith Jehovah.
¹⁰Because this [is] the covenant which I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah, giving my laws into their mind, I will also write them 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 in every way; for, first, because they were entrusted with the oracles of God. (Rom. 3:2)

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Neh. 9:13‑14• ¹³{i}And 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.{/i}
¹⁴{i}And thou madest known unto them thy holy Sabbath, and prescribedst for them commandments and statutes and a law, through Moses thy servant.{/i} (Neh. 9:13‑14)

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Psa. 147:19• ¹⁹He showeth his word to Jacob,{HR}His statutes and his judgments to Israel. (Psa. 147:19)

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Ezek. 20:11‑12• ¹¹And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
¹²Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Jehovah that sanctify them. (Ezek. 20:11‑12)

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

the service.

Ex. 12:25• ²⁵{i}And 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.{/i} (Ex. 12:25)

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Isa. 5:2• ²and he dug it up, 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 a winepress therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and 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 that is called Holy of holies,
¹⁰only with meats and drinks and different washings, ordinances of flesh imposed until a season of rectification. (Heb. 9:3,10)

promises.

Luke 1:54‑55,69‑75• ⁵⁴He hath helped Israel, his servant, in order to remember mercy;
⁵⁵as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed forever.
⁶⁹and raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of David, his servant.
⁷⁰{i}as he spoke by [the] mouth of his holy prophets, who have been since the world began;{/i}
⁷¹that we should be delivered from our enemies, and out of the hand of all who hate us;
⁷²to fulfil mercy with our fathers, and remember his holy covenant;
⁷³[the] 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 that are afar off, as many as [the] Lord our God shall call to [him]. (Acts 2:39)

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

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Acts 13:32‑33• ³²And we declare to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers,
³³that God hath fulfilled this to us their children having raised up Jesus; as also in the second psalm it is written, 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 from 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 when he made promise to Abraham, since he had no greater to swear by, swore by himself,
¹⁴saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I multiply thee,
¹⁵and thus after long-suffering he obtained the promise.
¹⁶For men, indeed, swear by the greater, and to them the oath for confirmation [is] an end of all dispute.
¹⁷Wherein God willing to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his counsel, (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 favored 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;