Identity in Israel
Explore questions about Israel, God's chosen people, and how believers are connected to this identity.
"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."
Deuteronomy 7:6
"But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light."
1 Peter 2:9
"But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree, don't boast over the branches... You will say then, 'Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.' True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith."
Romans 11:17-20
"Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh... 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. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ."
Ephesians 2:11-13
"So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God."
Ephesians 2:19
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring and heirs according to promise."
Galatians 3:28-29
"Know therefore that those who are of faith are children of Abraham."
Galatians 3:7
"For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition, having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace."
Ephesians 2:14-15
"Where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all."
Colossians 3:11