God’s Faithfulness

3 What advantage, then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in circumcision? ² Much in every way!^(A) First of all, the Jews have been entrusted with the very words of God.^(B)

The Lord Is God

³² Ask^(A) now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth;^(B) ask from one end of the heavens to the other.^(C) Has anything so great^(D) as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of? ³³ Has any other people heard the voice of God^[a] speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived?^{(E) 34} Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation,^(F) by testings,^(G) by signs^(H) and wonders,^(I) by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm,^(J) or by great and awesome deeds,^(K) like all the things the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

⁹ But you are a chosen people,^(A) a royal priesthood,^(B) a holy nation,^(C) God’s special possession,^(D) that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.^{(E) 10} Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God;^(F) once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

⁷ What other nation is so great^(A) as to have their gods near^(B) them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to him? ⁸ And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws^(C) as this body of laws I am setting before you today?

⁸ For you were once^(A) darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light^(B)

¹² remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners^(A) to the covenants of the promise,^(B) without hope^(C) and without God in the world.

²⁷ King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know you do.”

¹⁶ In the past, he let^(A) all nations go their own way.^(B)