Have you not even read this Scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone.

So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "And He was numbered with the transgressors."

And He began to say to them, "Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your ears."

Men, brothers; it was necessary [for] this Scripture to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus;

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very thing I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be proclaimed in all the earth."

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,

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, [saying] that, "In you all the nations shall be blessed."

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all the things which are written in the book of the law, to do them."

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

For it is also contained in the Scripture, "Behold, I place in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, precious, and he who believes on Him shall by no means be put to shame."

And Abram believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."

But to him who does not work but believes on Him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,

And therefore "it was accounted to him for righteousness."

but for us also, to whom it was going to be imputed, those believing on Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,

Just as Abraham "believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness."

And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as if one should speak to his friend; and he retired into the camp: but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.

Are not You the Lord that destroyed the inhabitants of this land before the face of Your people Israel, and gave it to Your beloved seed of Abraham forever?

[ 16:22] Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even as the son of man with his neighbor!

But you, O Israel, are My servant Jacob, and he whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, whom I have loved;

Greater love has no one than this, that one should lay down his life on behalf of his friends.

No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things which I heard from My Father I have made known to you.