Quotes About Scripture

Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there three days.

regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh,

For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.

What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has discovered?

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

Now the words “it was credited to him” were written not only for Abraham,

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel:

Brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not take pride in one man over another.

We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.

Did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only ones it has reached?

that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

This greeting is in my own hand—Paul.

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

But I saw none of the other apostles except James, the Lordís brother.

So also, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”

All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”

The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ.

What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.