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Galatians 4:8
However at that time, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are not gods.
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Colossians 1:21
And although you were previously alienated and hostile in attitude, engaged in evil deeds,
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1 Peter 1 3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
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1 Thessalonians 4 5
not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;
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Ephesians 4:18
being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;
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1 Thessalonians 4 13
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as indeed the rest of mankind do, who have no hope.
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Ezekiel 37:26
And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will place them and multiply them, and set My sanctuary in their midst forever.
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1 Corinthians 10 19-1 Corinthians 10 20
What do I mean then? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?No, but I say that things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not want you to become partners with demons.
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Acts 28:20
For this reason, therefore, I requested to see you and to speak with you, since I am wearing this chain for the sake of the hope of Israel.”
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Acts 3:25
It is you who are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God ordained with your fathers, saying to Abraham,‘ And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’
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John 15:5
I am the vine, you are the branches; the one who remains in Me, and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.
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Jeremiah 17:13
Lord, the hope of Israel, All who abandon You will be put to shame. Those who turn away on earth will be written down, Because they have forsaken the fountain of living water, that is the Lord.
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Galatians 3:16-17
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say,“ And to seeds,” as one would in referring to many, but rather as in referring to one,“ And to your seed,” that is, Christ.What I am saying is this: the Law, which came 430 years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.
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Romans 9:4-5
who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons and daughters, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the temple service, and the promises;whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.
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Psalms 89:3-18
“ I have made a covenant with My chosen; I have sworn to My servant David,I will establish your descendants forever And build up your throne to all generations.” SelahThe heavens will praise Your wonders, Lord; Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.For who in the skies is comparable to the Lord? Who among the sons of the mighty is like the Lord,A God greatly feared in the council of the holy ones, And awesome above all those who are around Him?Lord God of armies, who is like You, mighty Lord? Your faithfulness also surrounds You.You rule the surging of the sea; When its waves rise, You calm them.You Yourself crushed Rahab like one who is slain; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; The world and all it contains, You have established them.The north and the south, You have created them; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.You have a strong arm; Your hand is mighty, Your right hand is exalted.Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Mercy and truth go before You.Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! Lord, they walk in the light of Your face.In Your name they rejoice all the day, And by Your righteousness they are exalted.For You are the glory of their strength, And by Your favor our horn is exalted.For our shield belongs to the Lord, And our king to the Holy One of Israel.
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Genesis 17:7-9
I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.And I will give to you and to your descendants after you the land where you live as a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”God said further to Abraham,“ Now as for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.
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Genesis 15:18
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying,“ To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:
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Romans 9:8
That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants.
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Jeremiah 31:31-34
“ Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord,“ when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,not like the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord.“ For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord:“ I will put My law within them and write it on their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.They will not teach again, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying,‘ Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord,“ for I will forgive their wrongdoing, and their sin I will no longer remember.”
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2 Chronicles 15 3
For many days Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest and without the Law.
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1 Peter 3 15
but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, but with gentleness and respect;
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Jeremiah 14:8
Hope of Israel, Its Savior in time of distress, Why are You like a stranger in the land, Or like a traveler who has pitched his tent for the night?
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Colossians 1:5
because of the hope reserved for you in heaven, of which you previously heard in the word of truth, the gospel
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John 4:22
You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.
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Exodus 24:3-11
Then Moses came and reported to the people all the words of the Lord and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice and said,“ All the words which the Lord has spoken we will do!”And Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. Then he got up early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain with twelve memorial stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.And he sent young men of the sons of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed bulls as peace offerings to the Lord.Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and the other half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it as the people listened; and they said,“ All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient!”So Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said,“ Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,and they saw the God of Israel; and under His feet there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.Yet He did not reach out with His hand against the nobles of the sons of Israel; and they saw God, and they ate and drank.
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Isaiah 61:5
Strangers will stand and pasture your flocks, And foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.
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2 Thessalonians 2 16
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace,
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Acts 14:15-16
and saying,“ Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men, of the same nature as you, preaching the gospel to you, to turn from these useless things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything that is in them.In past generations He permitted all the nations to go their own ways;
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Isaiah 45:20
“ Gather yourselves and come; Come together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge, Who carry around their wooden idol And pray to a god who cannot save.
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Ezekiel 13:9
“ So My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will have no place in the council of My people, nor will they be written down in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel, so that you may know that I am the Lord God.
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Colossians 1:27
to whom God willed to make known what the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles is, the mystery that is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
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1 Timothy 1 1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and of Christ Jesus, who is our hope,
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Luke 1:72
To show mercy to our fathers, And to remember His holy covenant,
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Ezra 4:3
But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of fathers’ households of Israel said to them,“ You have nothing in common with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves will together build for the Lord God of Israel, just as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, has commanded us.”
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Isaiah 44:6
“ This is what the Lord says, He who is the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of armies:‘ I am the first and I am the last, And there is no God besides Me.
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John 10:16
And I have other sheep that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to My voice; and they will become one flock, with one shepherd.
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1 Peter 1 21
who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
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Hebrews 11:34
quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
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Numbers 18:19
All the offerings of the holy gifts, which the sons of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given to you and your sons and your daughters with you, as a permanent allotment. It is a permanent covenant of salt before the Lord to you and your descendants with you.”
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Hosea 3:4
For the sons of Israel will live for many days without a king or leader, without sacrifice or memorial stone, and without ephod or household idols.
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Hebrews 6:18
so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to hold firmly to the hope set before us.
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1 Corinthians 8 4-1 Corinthians 8 6
Therefore, concerning the eating of food sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.For even if there are so called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords,yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.
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1 John 3 3
And everyone who has this hope set on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
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Jeremiah 33:20-26
“ This is what the Lord says:‘ If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night do not occur at their proper time,then My covenant with David My servant may also be broken, so that he will not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levitical priests, My ministers.As the heavenly lights cannot be counted, and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who serve Me.’ ”And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,“ Have you not observed what these people have asserted, saying,‘ The two families which the Lord chose, He has rejected them’? So they despise My people as no longer being a nation in their sight.This is what the Lord says:‘ If My covenant for day and night does not continue, and I have not established the fixed patterns of heaven and earth,then I would reject the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But I will restore their fortunes and have mercy on them.’ ”
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Romans 1:28-32
And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a depraved mind, to do those things that are not proper,people having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice; they are gossips,slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,without understanding, untrustworthy, unfeeling, and unmerciful;and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.