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Jul 28, 2020 · The New Testament is our divinely inspired commentary on the Old Testament. When studying a passage, it’s often helpful to see how other biblical authors understood it. Here are the Apostle Paul’s quotes of the Old Testament in his letters.
- Peter
Old Testament: Type: 1 Pe 1:16 since it is written, “You...
- What We Believe
We believe that the Eternal Son entered the human race as...
- Peter
- Sin and Righteousness
- Jews and Gentiles: One Family
- Church Life
- Victory
- Summary
- Conclusion
- Data
This broad topic or category is very important in Paul’s writings. It shows us our need for the gospel. What does righteousness mean? How does sin take away from it? How do we solve the sin problem and keep righteousness, even though we still have the sin problem? Or do we have a sin problem, after we “get” righteous?
The next major category is the problem of Jewish identity and Gentile exclusion. As Paul scanned the entire sweep on Israel’s history as recorded in the OT and the oral traditions of which he was well aware, he observed that God was reaching out to the Gentiles long before the Messiah came. But how does God still favor his Chosen People, as he reac...
Paul wrote many of his letters to explain his theology and gospel, but he also wrote them to solve church problems. How are Christians supposed to live? How does the OT relate to the Christian life? If believers are no longer under the Law of Moses, can they still use it? If so, for what purpose? What about the rest of the OT?
Paul’s gospel is eschatological; that is, it moves from one obsolete era to the new one, and it moves towards a culmination or ending, summed up in Christ. The new era brings victory in the Christian life today. But the new era will be transformed at the very Last Day, when death is destroyed and everyone will have to confess that Jesus is Lord.
We can boil down Paul’s use of the OT thus: 1. Paul uses the OT to find the gospel revealed in it all along. 2. He uses it for wisdom about church life, without coming under the Old Covenant. 3. He uses it for the promises and prophecies about the Messiah. 4. He uses it to break down ethnic barriers between Jew and Gentile; no, God has not given up...
All of the quotations from the Septuagint (Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible) or Old Testament reveal that Paulwas a practical theologian. He was an apostle who planted churches. He was concerned with their spiritual growth. First, the gospel message was extremely important for Paul; it was his life’s work, his very life even. The gospel expres...
Paul quotes from the Torah (first five books of the Old Testament) 45 times. The prophets are quoted 53 times, with Isaiah taking the lead at 36 times. Psalms are quoted 23 times. And other books are cited 10 times. It is clear Paul liked Isaiah with its many promises of Jews and Gentiles being forged into one family, and he liked the Psalms for Je...
- See Bible Dictionary, “Quotations,” 756–59.
- The same three Old Testament books were the most quoted among the Dead Sea Scrolls.
- Michael D. Coogan, “Literacy in Ancient Israel,” in The Oxford Companion to the Bible, ed. Bruce M. Metzger and Michael D. Coogan (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 438.
- Bart D. Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian.
The apostles not only accepted the Old Testament and Jesus' Word's as authoritative, they also began to see that their writings were on the same authoritative level. Being led by the Holy Spirit, they believed they were speaking for Christ.
Jul 19, 2013 · In our text, Paul tells us why we need the Old Testament: You need the Old Testament because it points us to Christ and instructs us in godly living, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
- “For” points back to the previous verse, where Paul cited Psalm 69:9, “The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me.” It’s amazing that to...
- Romans 15:4: “For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction ….” Unbelievers are ignorant about God and His ways, so the...
- Strictly speaking, the Greek grammar of verse 4 separates “perseverance” from the phrase “of the Scriptures.” The word “through” is repeated twice,...
- The main encouragement that comes from the Old Testament is that God promises a Savior to Adam and Eve in the Garden right after their rebellion—an...
- “Hope” has the article here: “the hope.” Paul wrote about this hope (Rom. 5:1-5):Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God...
Nov 7, 2018 · Paul, citing Deuteronomy 32:35, asserts: “Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, ‘Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord’” (Rom. 12:19).
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May 17, 2010 · Reading the Old Testament with Paul. In Romans 3, Paul launched into the longest string of Old Testament verses recorded in the New Testament. By taking a closer look, we can begin to get a sense of how to enrich our reading of not only the Old Testament but the whole Bible.
