Romans 4:13

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”

Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense of my head. Judah is my scepter.

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and crush all the sons of Sheth.

He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children.

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh,

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

Isaiah is very bold and says, “I was found by those who didn’t seek me. I was revealed to those who didn’t ask for me.”

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.

He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed.”

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.

Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

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.”

From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,

We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.”

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

Arise, God, judge the earth, for you inherit all of the nations.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands wait for his law.”

I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it.” ’

“Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.

He will pass through the sea of affliction, and will strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up; and the pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,

and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”

For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

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

Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring of David, according to my Good News,

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

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”

Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.

Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”, which is Christ.

He said to Abram, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

But the righteousness which is of faith says this, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down);

Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.