Talált 1732 Eredmények: Eli
Created nature has been condemned to frustration; not for some deliberate fault of its own, but for the sake of him who so condemned it, with a hope to look forward to;✻ (Romans 8, 20)
They are Israelites, adopted as God’s sons; the visible presence, and the covenant, and the giving of the law, and the Temple worship, and the promises, are their inheritance; (Romans 9, 4)
And yet it is not as if God’s promise had failed of its effect. Not all those who are sprung from Israel are truly Israelites; (Romans 9, 6)
whereas the Israelites aimed at a disposition which should justify them, and never reached it. (Romans 9, 31)
so we read in scripture, Behold, I am setting down in Sion one who is a stone to trip men’s feet, a boulder to catch them unawares; those who believe in him will not be disappointed.✻ (Romans 9, 33)
Christ has superseded the law, bringing justification to anyone who will believe. (Romans 10, 4)
Thou canst find salvation, if thou wilt use thy lips to confess that Jesus is the Lord, and thy heart to believe that God has raised him up from the dead. (Romans 10, 9)
The heart has only to believe, if we are to be justified; the lips have only to make confession, if we are to be saved. (Romans 10, 10)
That is what the scripture says, Anyone who believes in him will not be disappointed.✻ (Romans 10, 11)
Only, how are they to call upon him until they have learned to believe in him? And how are they to believe in him, until they listen to him? And how can they listen, without a preacher to listen to? (Romans 10, 14)
Tell me, then, has God disowned his people? That is not to be thought of. Why, I am an Israelite myself, descended from Abraham; Benjamin is my tribe. (Romans 11, 1)
No, God has not disowned the people which, from the first, he recognized as his. Do you not remember what scripture tells us about Elias? The complaint, I mean, which he made before God about Israel: (Romans 11, 2)
