Romans 9:4

¹²that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

¹⁹He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

⁶But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.

²I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”

⁶For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

²²You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘The LORD says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

³⁹For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

¹Now indeed even the first^[+] had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.

¹³For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself, ¹⁴saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.”¹⁵Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. ¹⁶For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. ¹⁷In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

¹⁵For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba!^[+] Father!”