Luke 15:31

that 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.

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

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

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.

If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.

However what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman.”

circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”

so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.

Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.

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

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

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

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’ ”

For 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.”

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.

In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.

This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.

Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

It shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh will give you, as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Write these words; for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.

Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release.

These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only,

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.

Yahweh said, “I will also remove Judah out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’ ”

Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

For you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head.

So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.

and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.

“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

Let your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children.

For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,

Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.

“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.

The sun will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.

We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name.

Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.

“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever.

When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, “You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,

He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,

We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers,

“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.

“Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

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

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

“Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?”

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

My soul, you have said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing.”