Bible Verses About Quotations and Allusions

And a way of peace they did not know.

There is no fear of God before their eyes.'

for what doth the writing say? `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him--to righteousness;'

`Happy they whose lawless acts were forgiven, and whose sins were covered;

happy the man to whom the Lord may not reckon sin.'

who is father of us all (according as it hath been written--`A father of many nations I have set thee,') before Him whom he did believe--God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.

Who, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: `So shall thy seed be;'

What, then, shall we say? the law is sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

(according as it hath been written--`For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')

nor because they are seed of Abraham are all children, but--`in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

for the word of promise is this; `According to this time I will come, and there shall be to Sarah a son.'

`The greater shall serve the less;'

according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'

for to Moses He saith, `I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;'

for the Writing saith to Pharaoh--`For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;'

as also in Hosea He saith, `I will call what is not My people--My people; and her not beloved--Beloved,

and it shall be--in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.'

And Isaiah doth cry concerning Israel, `If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved;

for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the Lord do upon the land.

and according as Isaiah saith before, `Except the Lord of Sabaoth did leave to us a seed, as Sodom we had become, and as Gomorrah we had been made like.'

according as it hath been written, `Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.'

for Moses doth describe the righteousness that is of the law, that, `The man who did them shall live in them,'

and the righteousness of faith doth thus speak: `Thou mayest not say in thine heart, Who shall go up to the heaven,' that is, Christ to bring down?

or, `Who shall go down to the abyss,' that is, Christ out of the dead to bring up.

But what doth it say? `Nigh thee is the saying--in thy mouth, and in thy heart:' that is, the saying of the faith, that we preach;