top bible verses about israel genesis 12:3 - i will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you i will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. isaiah 49:7 - thus says the lord, the redeemer of israel and his holy one, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation, the servant of rulers: kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the lord, who is faithful, the holy one of israel, who has chosen you. genesis 15:13 - then the lord said to abram, know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years. psalm 25:22 - redeem israel, o god, out of all his troubles. genesis 18:18 - seeing that abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? the remnant of israel - romans 11:1-8 i ask then: did god reject his people? by no means! i am an israelite myself, a descendant of abraham, from the tribe of benjamin. god did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. dont you know what scripture says in the passage about elijahhow he appealed to god against israel: lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; i am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me ? and what was gods answer to him? i have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to baal. so too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. and if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace. what then? what the people of israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain. the elect among them did, but the others were hardened, as it is written: god gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see and ears that could not hear, to this very day.
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