Bible Cross References
thy people
Genesis 17:7
"And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you.
Exodus 19:5
'Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth [is] Mine.
Exodus 19:6
'And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These [are] the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."
Deuteronomy 7:6-8
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" For you [are] a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.
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"The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples;
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"but because the LORD loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 26:18
"Also today the LORD has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that [you] should keep all His commandments,
Deuteronomy 26:19
"and that He will set you high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, just as He has spoken."
1 Samuel 12:22
"For the LORD will not forsake His people, for His great name's sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you His 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 that I made with their fathers in the day [that] I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD.
33
"But this [is] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
34
"No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."
Zechariah 13:9
I will bring the [one-third] through the fire, Will refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, And I will answer them. I will say, 'This [is] My people'; And each one will say, 'The LORD [is] my God.' "
Romans 9:4-6
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who are Israelites, to whom [pertain] the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service [of God,] and the promises;
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of whom [are] the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ [came,] who is over all, [the] eternally blessed God. Amen.
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But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they [are] not all Israel who [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 also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe of Benjamin.
Romans 11:2-12
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God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,
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"LORD, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek 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."
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Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
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And if by grace, then [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.
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What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
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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.
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Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see, and bow down their back always."
11
I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation [has come] to the Gentiles.
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Now if their fall [is] riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!
1 Peter 2:9
But you [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;