Quotations and Allusions

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Romans 7:7 NT

  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.”

• Exodus 20:17 OT

  “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

• Romans 8:36 NT

  Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

• Psalms 44:22 OT

  Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

• Romans 9:7 NT

  Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”

• Genesis 21:12 OT

  God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac.

• Romans 9:9 NT

  For this is a word of promise, “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”

• Genesis 18:10 OT

  He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

• Romans 9:12 NT

  it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”

• Genesis 25:23 OT

  Yahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.”

• Romans 9:13 NT

  Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

• Malachi 1:2 OT

  “I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;

• Malachi 1:3 OT

  but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”

• Romans 9:15 NT

  For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

• Exodus 33:19 OT

  He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”

• Romans 9:17 NT

  For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

• Exodus 9:16 OT

  but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,

• Romans 9:25 NT

  As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”

• Hosea 2:23 OT

  I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’ ”

• Romans 9:26 NT

  “It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ”

• Hosea 1:10 OT

  Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the…

• Romans 9:27 NT

  Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;

• Romans 9:28 NT

  for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth.”

• Isaiah 10:22 OT

  For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.