Bible Verses About Quotations and Allusions

And the way of peace they have not known.

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God: and it was reputed to him unto justice.

Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven: and whose sins are covered.

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin.

(As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations), before God, whom he believed: who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things that are not, as those that are.

Who against hope believed in hope; that he might be made the father of many nations, according to that which was said to him: So shall thy seed be.

What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid! But I do not know sin, but by the law. For I had not known concupiscence, if the law did not say: Thou shalt not covet.

(As it is written: For thy sake, we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.)

Neither are all they that are the seed of Abraham, children: but in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

For this is the word of promise: According to this time will I come. And Sara shall have a son.

Not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said to her: The elder shall serve the younger.

As it is written: Jacob I have loved: but Esau I have hated.

For he saith to Moses: I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. And I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy.

For the scripture saith to Pharao: To this purpose have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

As in Osee he saith: I will call that which was not my people, my people; and her that was not beloved, beloved; and her that had not obtained mercy; one that hath obtained mercy.

And it shalt be in the place where it was said unto them: you are not my people; there they shall be called the sons of the living God.

And Isaias cried out concerning Israel: If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.

For he shall finish his word and cut it short in justice: because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth.

And Isaias foretold: Unless the Lord of Sabbath had left us a seed, we had been made as Sodom and we had been like unto Gomorrha.

As it is written: Behold I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and a rock of scandal. And whosoever believeth in him shall not be confounded.

For Moses wrote that the justice which is of the law: The man that shall do it shall live by it.

But the justice which is of faith, speaketh thus: Say not in thy heart: Who shall ascend into heaven? That is to bring Christ down;

Or who shall descend into the deep? That is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.

But what saith the scripture? The word is nigh thee; even in thy mouth and in thy heart. This is the word of faith, which we preach.