Quotes and References from the Old Testament
1:17 …: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, …: but the just shall live by his faith.
1:22-23 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God …. Jeremiah 10:14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, …. Isaiah 19:11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son, …?
1:24 God gave them up … Psalm 81:12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust:
2:1 see 2 Samuel 12:5-7
2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; …? Exodus 34:6-7 …, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, ….
2:5-6 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; Who will render to every man according to his deeds: Deuteronomy 32:34-35 … To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: …
Psalm 62:12 … O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work. Proverbs 24:12 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; … and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God Deuteronomy 10:17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
2:14 For when the Gentiles, …, are a law unto themselves:
Deuteronomy 12:8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. Ecclesiastes 3:17 I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: ….
2:18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
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?
2:24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written. Isaiah 52:5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed. Ezekiel 20:27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass …. 2 Samuel 12:14
3:1-2 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. Deuteronomy 4:7-8 For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? 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?
3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. Psalm 51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, …: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
3:6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? Genesis 18:25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: Psalm 14:1-3 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good .. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
3:11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Psalm 10:4 The wicked, …, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
3:12 They are all gone out of the way, …; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Psalm 53:1-4 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. …: there is none that doeth good.
3:13 Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Psalm 5:9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; …; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. Psalm 140:3 … have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under … lips.
3:14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Psalm 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing ,deceit and fraud:
3:15 Their feet are swift to shed blood: Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways: Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Isaiah 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
3:17 And the way of peace have they not known: Isaiah 59:8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
3:18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. Psalm 36:1-4 … there is no fear of God before his eyes.
3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Psalm 63:11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. Psalm 143:2 And enter not into judgment …: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
4:2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. Genesis 15:6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
4:7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered Psalm 32:1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
4:8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Genesis 15:6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith …; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: Genesis 17:10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
4:13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. Genesis 17:4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, Genesis 17:5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
4:17-18 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. Lamentations 3:26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
4:22 And … imputed to him for righteousness. Genesis 15:6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness
5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so …: Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil…: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
5:17 For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) Genesis 3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
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