Quotes and references from the Old Testament:
6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof Psalm 19:13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, …except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. Exodus 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, …. 10th commandment
7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually
Genesis 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done
8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? Psalm 118:6 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?
8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Isaiah 50:8 He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Psalm 44:22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
9:7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. Genesis 21:12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, …, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
9:9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son. Genesis 18:10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee …; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. ….
9:10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; Genesis 25:21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
9:12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. Genesis 25:23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, …; and the elder shall serve the younger.
9:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. Malachi 1:1-3 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. …: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains ….
9:15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. Deuteronomy 13:17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;
9:17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. EXODUS 9:16 And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
9:25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and …. Hosea 2:23 And … I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
9:27-28 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. Isaiah 10:23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
9:29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha. Isaiah 1:9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah
9:33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling stone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. Isaiah 8:14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
10:5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. Deuteronomy 4:8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
10:6-7 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) … Psalm 24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; Deuteronomy 30:14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Joel 2:32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
10:11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Isaiah 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. Psalm 119:6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. Psalm 119:46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed. Psalm 119:80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed. Psalm 119:116 Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Joel 2:32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! Isaiah 61:6 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? Isaiah 53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
10:18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. Psalm 22:27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee
10:19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you. Deuteronomy 32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
10:20 But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me. Isaiah 65:1 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
10:21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. Isaiah 65:2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
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