Exodus 4:22
Deuteronomy 7:6
Deuteronomy 14:1
1 Samuel 4:21
1 Kings 8:11
Psalms 63:2
Psalms 78:61
Psalms 147:19
Jeremiah 31:9
Acts 3:25
25You are the descendants of the prophets and the heirs ▼▼The Gk. lacks the heirs
of the covenant that God made with your ▼▼Other mss. read our
ancestors when he said to Abraham, ‘Through your descendant all the families of the earth will be blessed.’ ▼▼Gen 22:18; 26:4
Gen 12:3; 18:18; 22:18; 26:4; 28:14; Acts 2:39; Rom 9:4, 8; 15:8; Gal 3:8, 26 Acts 13:32
32We are telling you the good news: What God promised our ancestorsGen 3:15; 12:3; 22:18; Acts 26:6; Rom 4:13; Gal 3:16Romans 3:2
2There are all kinds of advantages! First of all, the Jews ▼▼Lit. they
have been entrusted with the utterances of God.Deut 4:7-8; Ps 147:19-20; Rom 2:18; 9:4 Ephesians 2:12
12At that time you were without Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel, ▼▼Or from the commonwealth of Israel
and strangers to the covenants of promise. You had no hope and were in the world without God.Ezek 13:9; John 10:16; Rom 9:4, 8; Gal 4:8; Eph 4:18; Col 1:21; Rom 9:4, 8, 1Thes 4:5, 13 Hebrews 8:8-10
8But God ▼▼Lit. he
found something wrong with his people ▼▼Lit. with them
when he said,Jer 31:31-34 “Look! The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenantwith the house of Israeland with the house of Judah. 9It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors at the timewhen I took them by the handand brought them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not remain loyal to my covenant,I ignored them, declares the Lord. 10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israelafter those days, declares the Lord:Zech 8:8; Heb 10:16 I will put my laws in their mindsand write them on their hearts. I will be their God,and they will be my people. Hebrews 9:1
1The Earthly Sanctuary and Its RitualNow even first covenant ▼▼The Gk. lacks covenant
had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary.Exod 25:8
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