Isaiah 45:11
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11 Thus says the Lord,
the Holy One of Israel and its Maker:
Will you question me[a] about my children
or command me concerning the work of my hands?(A)
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- 45.11 Cn: Heb Ask me of things to come
Mark 11:24
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24 So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received[a] it, and it will be yours.(A)
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- 11.24 Other ancient authorities read are receiving
Jeremiah 33:3
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3 Call to me, and I will answer you and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.(A)
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Isaiah 48:17
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17 Thus says the Lord,
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
I am the Lord your God,
who teaches you how to succeed,
who leads you in the way you should go.(A)
Ezekiel 36:37
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37 Thus says the Lord God: I will also let the house of Israel ask me to do this for them: to multiply their people like sheep.
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Isaiah 29:23
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23 For when he sees his children,
the work of my hands, in his midst,
they will sanctify my name;
they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob
and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.(A)
Ephesians 2:10
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10 For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we may walk in them.(A)
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Jeremiah 31:9
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9 With weeping they shall come,
and with consolations[a] I will lead them back;
I will let them walk by brooks of water,
in a straight path where they shall not stumble,
for I have become a father to Israel,
and Ephraim is my firstborn.(A)
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- 31.9 Gk: Heb supplications
Isaiah 60:21
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21 Your people shall all be righteous;
they shall possess the land forever.
They are the shoot that I planted, the work of my hands,
so that I might be glorified.(A)
Isaiah 43:21
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21 the people whom I formed for myself
so that they might declare my praise.(A)
Joshua 10:12
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12 On the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the Lord, and he said in the sight of Israel,
“Sun, stand still at Gibeon,
and Moon, in the valley of Aijalon.”(A)
Hosea 12:4
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4 He strove with the angel and prevailed;
he wept and sought his favor;
he met him at Bethel,
and there he spoke with him.[a](A)
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- 12.4 Gk Syr: Heb us
Hosea 1:10
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The Restoration of Israel
10 [a]Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered, and in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”(A)
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- 1.10 2.1 in Heb
Isaiah 64:8
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8 Yet, O Lord, you are our Father;
we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we are all the work of your hand.(A)
Isaiah 43:15
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15 I am the Lord, your Holy One,
the Creator of Israel, your King.
Isaiah 43:7
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7 everyone who is called by my name,
whom I created for my glory,
whom I formed and made.”(A)
Isaiah 43:3
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3 For I am the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.
I give Egypt as your ransom,
Cush and Seba in exchange for you.(A)
Genesis 32:26
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26 Then he said, “Let me go, for the day is breaking.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go, unless you bless me.”(A)
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Galatians 3:26-29
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26 for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith.(A) 27 As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.(B) 28 There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer slave or free; there is no longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.(C) 29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring,[a] heirs according to the promise.(D)
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- 3.29 Gk seed
2 Corinthians 6:18
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18 and I will be your father,
and you shall be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.”(A)
Romans 9:4-8
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4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;(A) 5 to them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, comes the Christ, who is over all, God blessed forever.[a] Amen.(B)
6 It is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all those descended from Israel are Israelites,(C) 7 and not all of Abraham’s children are his descendants, but “it is through Isaac that descendants shall be named for you.”(D) 8 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.
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- 9.5 Or Messiah, who is God over all, blessed forever; or Messiah. May he who is God over all be blessed forever
Daniel 9:24-27
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24 “Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city: to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.[a](A) 25 Know therefore and understand: from the time that the word went out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the time of an anointed prince, there shall be seven weeks, and for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with streets and moat, but in a troubled time.(B) 26 After the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing, and the troops of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its[b] end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.(C) 27 He shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall make sacrifice and offering cease, and in their place[c] shall be a desolating sacrilege until the decreed end is poured out upon the desolator.”(D)
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Daniel 9:2-3
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2 I,[a] Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, must be fulfilled for the devastation of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.(A)
3 Then I turned to the Lord God to seek an answer by prayer and supplication with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.(B)
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- 9.2 Theodotion: Heb in the first year of his reign, I
Daniel 2:18
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18 and told them to seek mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.(A)
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Ezekiel 39:7
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7 My holy name I will make known among my people Israel, and I will not let my holy name be profaned any more, and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.(A)
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