Fondare 2092 Risultati per: Chosen People
just as he says in Hosea: “I will call those who were not my people, ‘my people,’ and she who was not beloved, ‘beloved,’ and she who had not obtained mercy, ‘one who has obtained mercy.’ (Romans 9, 25)
And this shall be: in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they shall be called the sons of the living God.” (Romans 9, 26)
Then to Israel he says: “All day long I have stretched out my hands to a people who do not believe and who contradict me.” (Romans 10, 21)
Therefore, I say: Has God driven away his people? Let it not be so! For I, too, am an Israelite of the offspring of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. (Romans 11, 1)
God has not driven away his people, whom he foreknew. And do you not know what Scripture says in Elijah, how he calls upon God against Israel? (Romans 11, 2)
And again, he says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, along with his people.” (Romans 15, 10)
But God has chosen the foolish of the world, so that he may confound the wise. And God has chosen the weak of the world, so that he may confound the strong. (1 Corinthians 1, 27)
And God has chosen the ignoble and contemptible of the world, those who are nothing, so that he may reduce to nothing those who are something. (1 Corinthians 1, 28)
And so, do not take part in idolatry, as some of them did, just as it was written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and then they rose up to amuse themselves.” (1 Corinthians 10, 7)
It is written in the law: “I will speak to this people with other tongues and other lips, and even so, they will not heed me, says the Lord.” (1 Corinthians 14, 21)
And what consensus does the temple of God have with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, just as God says: “I will dwell with them, and I will walk among them. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. (2 Corinthians 6, 16)
And not only that, but he was also chosen by the churches to be a companion for our sojourn in this grace, which is ministered by us with our determined will, to the glory of the Lord. (2 Corinthians 8, 19)