Romans 9:4

“Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Israel is My son, My firstborn.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and *said about him, “Behold, truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”

“You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

“For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

“It is you who are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

“And we proclaim to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers,

But if you bear the name “Jew” and rely upon the Law and boast in God,

You who boast in the Law, through your transgression of the Law, do you dishonor God?

Great in every respect. First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they Abraham’s seed? So am I.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as referring to many, but rather to one, “And to your seed,” that is, Christ.

remember that you were at that time without Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.