Romans 7:5 (NIV)
“For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death.”
James 2:10 (ESV)
“For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.”
Romans 9:1 (NIV)
“I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit— I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race, the people of Israel.”
Has God's word failed?
God’s Plan of Salvation for the World
Chapter 9: It’s been the same from the beginning.
Romans 9:6 (NIV)
“It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.”
Romans 9:8 (NIV)
“it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring.
Galatians 3:16 (NIV)
“The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. Scripture does not say ‘and to seeds,’ meaning many people, but ‘and to your seed,’ meaning one person, who is Christ.”
Romans 9:17-18 (NIV)
“For Scripture says to Pharaoh, ‘For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth. So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.’”
Chapter 10: God’s plan has succeeded.
Romans 10:4 (ESV)
“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.”
Galatians 4:4-5 (NASB)
“But when the fullness of the time came, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons and daughters.”
Chapter 11: God’s plan will continue to succeed.
Romans 11:9-10 (ESV)
“Let their table become a snare and a trap,
a stumbling block and a retribution for them;
let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,
and bend their backs forever.”
Romans 11:11 (ESV)
So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather, through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.”
Romans 11:13 (ESV)
“I magnify my ministry in order to make my fellow Jews jealous and thus save some of them.”
Romans 11:25 (ESV)
“a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And in this way all Israel will be saved”
Romans 9:6 (ESV)
“For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel”
