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Romans 9:4

Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

KJV

οἵτινές εἰσιν Ἰσραηλεῖται, ὧν ἡ υἱοθεσία καὶ ἡ δόξα καὶ αἱ διαθῆκαι καὶ ἡ νομοθεσία καὶ ἡ λατρεία καὶ αἱ ἐπαγγελίαι,

Greek NT

qui sunt Israëlitæ, quorum adoptio est filiorum, et gloria, et testamentum, et legislatio, et obsequium, et promissa :

Vulgate

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

ASV

Who are Israelites: to whom belongeth the adoption as of children and the glory and the testament and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises:

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

διαθήκη
diatheke
noun · 33×
δόξα
doxa
noun · 166×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λατρεία
latreia
noun · 5×
νομοθεσία
nomothesia
noun · 1×
υἱοθεσία
uiothesia
noun · 5×
ἐπαγγελία
epaggelia
noun · 52×
Ἰσραηλίτης
israelites
noun · 9×
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὅστις
ostis
relative_pronoun · 146×

Intertextual echoes

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

  • Exod 4:22 · allusion
    "And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:"
    Exodus: Israel is my firstborn son — Paul on Israel's privileges

Themes

Historic Christian voices

7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§839"Those who have not yet received the Gospel are related to the People of God in various ways."325 The relationship of the Church with the Jewish People. When she delves into her own mystery, the Church, the People of God in the New Covenant, discovers her link with the Jewish People,326 "the first to hear the Word of God."327 The Jewish faith, unlike other non-Christian religio…
1. I said the other day, that John, to resolve the doubts of those who should question with themselves how the Lord, though He came after to the preaching, became before and more glorious than he, added, for He was before me. And this is indeed one reason. But not content with this, he adds again a second, which now he declares. What is it? And of his fullness, says he, have al…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210214.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
As the sacred synod searches into the mystery of the Church, it remembers the bond that spiritually ties the people of the New Covenant to Abraham's stock. The Church cannot forget that she received the revelation of the Old Testament through the people with whom God in His inexpressible mercy concluded the Ancient Covenant. Nor can she forget that she draws sustenance from the…

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 8:11 — So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
  • 2Cor 11:22 — Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
  • 2Pet 1:4 — Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
  • Acts 2:39 — For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.
  • Acts 2:39 — For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.
  • Acts 3:12 — And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
  • Acts 3:25 — Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
  • Acts 3:25 — Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
  • Acts 13:32 — And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
  • Deut 7:6 — For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
  • Deut 14:1 — Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
  • Eph 2:12 — That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
  • Eph 2:12 — That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
  • Exod 4:22 — And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
  • Exod 4:22 — And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
  • Gal 4:5 — To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
  • Gen 17:2 — And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
  • Gen 17:7 — And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
  • Gen 17:7 — And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
  • Heb 6:13 — For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
  • Heb 8:6 — But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
  • Heb 9:1 — Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
  • Isa 41:8 — But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
  • Isa 45:11 — Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.
  • Isa 63:19 — We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.
  • Jer 31:33 — But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God
  • John 1:17 — For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
  • John 1:47 — Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
  • John 4:22 — Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
  • Luke 1:69 — And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
  • Luke 15:31 — And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.
  • Mark 12:1 — And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went
  • Matt 8:12 — But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  • Matt 15:26 — But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.
  • Ps 89:3 — I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
  • Ps 147:19 — He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
  • Ps 147:19 — He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
  • Rom 2:17 — Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
  • Rom 2:23 — Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
  • Rom 3:2 — Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.