Genesis 12:1-7
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The Call of Abram
12 The Lord said to Abram:
Go out from your land,
your relatives,
and your father’s house
to the land that I will show you.(A)
2 I will make you into a great nation,(B)
I will bless you,(C)
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.[a](D)
3 I will bless those who bless you,
I will curse those who treat you with contempt,(E)
and all the peoples[b] on earth
will be blessed[c] through you.[d](F)
4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran.(G) 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated, and the people he had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, 6 Abram passed through the land to the site of Shechem,(H) at the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.”(I) So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.
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- Genesis 12:2 Or great. Be a blessing!
- Genesis 12:3 Lit clans
- Genesis 12:3 Or will find blessing
- Genesis 12:3 Or will bless themselves by you
Isaiah 2:3
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3 and many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob.(A)
He will teach us about His ways
so that we may walk in His paths.”
For instruction will go out of Zion
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Malachi 1:11
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11 “For My name will be great among the nations,(A) from the rising of the sun to its setting. Incense[a] and pure offerings will be presented in My name in every place because My name will be great among the nations,”[b] says Yahweh of Hosts.
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- Malachi 1:11 Or Burnt offerings
- Malachi 1:11 Or is great . . . are presented . . . is great
Matthew 15:24
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24 He replied, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”(A)
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John 11:36
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36 So the Jews said, “See how He loved(A) him!”
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Romans 3:1-2
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Paul Answers an Objection
3 So what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the benefit of circumcision? 2 Considerable in every way. First, they were entrusted(A) with the spoken words of God.(B)
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Romans 9:4-5
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4 They are Israelites,(A) and to them belong the adoption,(B) the glory,(C) the covenants,(D) the giving of the law,(E) the temple service,(F) and the promises.(G) 5 The ancestors are theirs,(H) and from them, by physical descent,[a] came the Messiah,(I) who is God(J) over all,(K) praised forever.[b](L) Amen.
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- Romans 9:5 Lit them, according to the flesh
- Romans 9:5 Or the Messiah, the One who is over all, the God who is blessed forever, or Messiah. God, who is over all, be blessed forever
Romans 15:8-9
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8 For I say that the Messiah became a servant of the circumcised[a] on behalf of God’s truth,(A) to confirm the promises to the fathers,(B) 9 and so that Gentiles(C) may glorify God for His mercy.(D) As it is written:
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- Romans 15:8 The Jews
- Romans 15:9 2Sm 22:50; Ps 18:49
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