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.
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope
Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the ho
Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest,
They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due
And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and multiply th
I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me
Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set
not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and
I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your Go
For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without the law.
But in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you the reason for
So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as
I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there
Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of th
You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of E
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for
And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your o
So for this reason I have called to see you and speak with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with
My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and speak lying divinations. They will not belong to the coun
the faith and love proceeding from the hope stored up for you in heaven, of which you have already heard in the word of
Thus says the LORD, the King and Redeemer of Israel, the LORD of Hosts: “I am the first and I am the last, and there is
For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or
To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the
“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and n
When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All th
Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to
So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.
Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pra
to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,
And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and goo
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,
All the holy offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD I give to you and to your sons and daughters as a permane
But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the other heads of the families of Israel replied, “You have no part with us in building a h
“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn fr
O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays bu
quenched the raging fire, and escaped the edge of the sword; who gained strength from weakness, became mighty in battle,
Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.