Bible Verses About Quotations and Allusions

and the way of shalom they do not know.

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

For what does the Tanakh say? “Avraham put his trust in God, and it was credited to his account as righteousness.”

“Blessed are those whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered over;

Blessed is the man whose sin Adonai will not reckon against his account.”

This accords with the Tanakh, where it says, “I have appointed you to be a father to many nations.” Avraham is our father in God’s sight because he trusted God as the one who gives life to the dead and calls nonexistent things into existence.

For he was past hope, yet in hope he trusted that he would indeed become a father to many nations, in keeping with what he had been told, “So many will your seed be.”

Therefore, what are we to say? That the Torah is sinful? Heaven forbid! Rather, the function of the Torah was that without it, I would not have known what sin is. For example, I would not have become conscious of what greed is if the Torah had not said, “Thou shalt not covet.”

As the Tanakh puts it, “For your sake we are being put to death all day long, we are considered sheep to be slaughtered.”

indeed, not all the descendants are seed of Avraham; rather, “What is to be called your ‘seed’ will be in Yitz’chak.”

For this is what the promise said: “At the time set, I will come; and Sarah will have a son.”

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

This accords with where it is written, “Ya‘akov I loved, but Esav I hated.”

For to Moshe he says, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will pity whom I pity.”

For the Tanakh says to Pharaoh, “It is for this very reason that I raised you up, so that in connection with you I might demonstrate my power, so that my name might be known throughout the world.”

As indeed he says in Hoshea, “Those who were not my people I will call my people; her who was not loved I will call loved;

and in the very place where they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called sons of the living God!”

But Yesha‘yahu, referring to Isra’el, cries out, “Even if the number of people in Isra’el is as large as the number of grains of sand by the sea, only a remnant will be saved.

For Adonai will fulfill his word on the earth with certainty and without delay.”

Also, as Yesha‘yahu said earlier, “If Adonai-Tzva’ot had not left us a seed, we would have become like S’dom, we would have resembled ‘Amora.”

As the Tanakh puts it, “Look, I am laying in Tziyon a stone that will make people stumble, a rock that will trip them up. But he who rests his trust on it will not be humiliated.”

For Moshe writes about the righteousness grounded in the Torah that the person who does these things will attain life through them.

Moreover, the righteousness grounded in trusting says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend to heaven?’” — that is, to bring the Messiah down —

or, “‘Who will descend into Sh’ol?’” — that is, to bring the Messiah up from the dead.

What, then, does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.” — that is, the word about trust which we proclaim, namely,