Quotes about Israel
God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel:
— Romans 11:2
What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,
— Romans 11:7
I ask then, did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Certainly not! However, because of their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.
— Romans 11:11
I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
— Romans 11:25
And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob.
— Romans 11:26
Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?
— 1 Corinthians 10:18
Peace and mercy to all who walk by this rule, even to the Israel of God.
— Galatians 6:16
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
— Ephesians 2:12
circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
— Philippians 3:5
But God found fault with the people and said: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
— Hebrews 8:8
For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
— Hebrews 8:10
By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch Israel’s own firstborn.
— Hebrews 11:28