Fondare 2116 Risultati per: Descendants of Israel
This is the reason, then, I have requested to see you and to speak with you, for it is on account of the hope of Israel that I wear these chains." (Acts 28, 20)
It was not through the law that the promise was made to Abraham and his descendants that he would inherit the world, but through the righteousness that comes from faith. (Romans 4, 13)
For this reason, it depends on faith, so that it may be a gift, and the promise may be guaranteed to all his descendants, not to those who only adhere to the law but to those who follow the faith of Abraham, who is the father of all of us, (Romans 4, 16)
He believed, hoping against hope, that he would become "the father of many nations," according to what was said, "Thus shall your descendants be." (Romans 4, 18)
But it is not that the word of God has failed. For not all who are of Israel are Israel, (Romans 9, 6)
nor are they all children of Abraham because they are his descendants; but "It is through Isaac that descendants shall bear your name." (Romans 9, 7)
This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants. (Romans 9, 8)
And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, "Though the number of the Israelites were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will be saved; (Romans 9, 27)
And as Isaiah predicted: "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom and have been made like Gomorrah." (Romans 9, 29)
but that Israel, who pursued the law of righteousness, did not attain to that law? (Romans 9, 31)
But I ask, did not Israel understand? First Moses says: "I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will make you angry." (Romans 10, 19)
But regarding Israel he says, "All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contentious people." (Romans 10, 21)