Romans 9:4
They are my fellow-Israelites, God's chosen people. God revealed to them his glory and made agreements with them, giving them the law, true worship, and his promises.
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Genesis 17:2I will make my agreement between me and you, and I will give you many, many descendants.”
Genesis 17:10This is my agreement with you and your descendants who come after you, the agreement you are to keep: every male among you shall be circumcised.
Exodus 4:22This is what you are to tell Pharaoh, ‘This is what the Lord says. Israel is my firstborn son.
Exodus 19:3Moses went up the mountain to God. The Lord spoke to Moses from the mountain, and told him, “This is what you are to say to the descendants of Jacob, the Israelites:
Exodus 34:27Then the Lord told Moses, “Write down these words, because these are the basis for the agreement I have made with you and with Israel.”
Numbers 7:89Whenever Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with the Lord, he would hear the voice speaking to him from the atonement cover on the Ark of the Testimony between the two cherubim. This is how the Lord spoke to him.
Matthew Henry on Romans 9:2-6
Paul's Anxiety for the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: 4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; 5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as… Read the whole commentary →