Verse 6

It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gal 6:16 : 16 May peace and mercy come upon all who follow this standard, and also upon the Israel of God.
  • Rom 2:28-29 : 28 For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. 29 But a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. Such a person’s praise is not from people, but from God.
  • Num 23:19 : 19 'God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?'
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said about him, 'Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!'
  • Rom 3:3 : 3 What if some were unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness nullify the faithfulness of God?
  • Rom 4:12-16 : 12 and to be the father of the circumcised who are not only circumcised but also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised. 13 For the promise to Abraham or his descendants that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if those who are of the law inherit, faith is made void, and the promise is nullified. 15 For the law brings wrath, and where there is no law, there is no transgression. 16 Therefore, the promise comes by faith, that it may be according to grace, so that it might be guaranteed to all the offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
  • Rom 11:1-2 : 1 So I ask, did God reject His people? Certainly not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not rejected His people, whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the story of Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel?
  • Heb 6:17-18 : 17 Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath. 18 So that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.
  • 2 Tim 2:13 : 13 If we are unfaithful, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.
  • John 10:35 : 35 If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—
  • Isa 55:11 : 11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but it will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
  • Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.