Bible Verses About Quotations and Allusions

The way of peace, they haven’t known.”

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

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

“Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.”

As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your seed be.”

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

Neither, because they are Abraham’s seed, are they all children. But, “In Isaac will your seed be called.”

For this is a word of promise, “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”

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

Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”

“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ There they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”

Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;

for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth.”

As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”

But the righteousness which is of faith says this, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Messiah down);

or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Messiah up from the dead.)”

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart”; that is, the word of faith, which we proclaim: