Bible Cross References
thy people
Genesis 17:7
And I will establish My covenant between you and your seed after you, to their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be your God, and the God of your seed after you.
Exodus 19:5
And now if you will indeed hear My voice, and keep My covenant, you shall be to Me a peculiar people above all nations; for the whole earth is Mine.
Exodus 19:6
And you shall be to Me a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words shall you speak to the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 7:6-8
6
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; and the Lord your God chose you to be to Him a peculiar people beyond all nations that [are] upon the face of the earth.
7
It is not because you are more numerous than all [other] nations that the Lord has preferred you, and the Lord has chosen you: for you are fewer in number than all [other] nations.
8
But because the Lord has loved you, and He is keeping the oath which He swore to your fathers; the Lord has brought you out with a strong hand, and the Lord has redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 26:18
And the Lord has chosen you this day, that you should be to Him a peculiar people, as He said, to keep His commands;
Deuteronomy 26:19
and that you should be above all nations, as He has made you renowned, and a boast, and glorious, that you should be a holy people to the Lord your God, as He has spoken.
1 Samuel 12:22
For the Lord will not cast off His people for His great name's sake, because the Lord graciously took you to Himself for a people.
Jeremiah 31:31-34
31
Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah.
32
Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took hold of their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; for they abode not in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.
33
For this is My covenant which I will make with the house of Israel: after those days, says the Lord, I will surely put My laws into their mind, and write them on their hearts. And I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people.
34
And no more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord. For all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more.
Zechariah 13:9
And I will bring the third [part] through the fire, and I will try them as silver is tried, and I will prove them as gold is proved: they shall call upon My name, and I will hear them, and say, This is My people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
Romans 9:4-6
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who are Israelites, of whom are the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the worship, and the promises;
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of whom are the fathers and from whom Christ [came], according to the flesh, He who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
6
But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all those of Israel [are of] Israel,
Romans 9:25-6
Romans 9:26-6
Romans 11:1
I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Romans 11:2-12
2
God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know [what the Scripture says] in Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,
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"LORD, they killed Your prophets and they torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life"?
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But what does the divine response say to him? "I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."
5
Even so then, at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6
And if by grace, [it is] no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if [it is] of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
7
What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained [it], and the rest were blinded.
8
Just as it is written: "God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day."
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And David says: "Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a recompense to them.
10
Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see, and their back always be bowed down."
11
I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But by their transgression, salvation [has come] to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
12
But if their transgression is [the] riches of the world, and their defeat is [the] riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's [own] possession, that you may proclaim the excellent virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;