QUESTIONS ABOUT THE NEW TESTAMENT

 

OLD TESTAMENT
VERSES
USED in the
NEW TESTAMENT
Part 2 of 2

This is not a comprehensive analysis. Only the more direct Old Testament verses recorded in the New Testament (New KJV) are listed.

The New Testament does not include more direct Old Testament verses from the books in italics


Part 2 of 2, Taking the Old Testament Books in Order

Genesis - Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy

Joshua - Judges - Ruth - 1 Samuel - 2 Samuel - 1 Kings - 2 Kings - 1 Chronicles - 2 Chronicles - Ezra - Nehemiah - Esther

Job - Psalms - Proverbs - Ecclesiastes - Song of Songs

Isaiah - Jeremiah - Lamentations - Ezekiel - Daniel

Hosea - Joel - Amos - Obadiah - Jonah - Micah - Nahum - Habakkuk - Zephaniah - Haggai - Zechariah - Malachi

back to Part 1, New Testament Books in Order


OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS IN ORDER

Book 1 - GENESIS

Genesis 1:3 - 'light to shine in darkness' (2 Corinthians 4:6b)

Genesis 1:27 - 'made them male and female' (Mark 10:6b)

Genesis 2:2 - 'And God rested on the seventh day from all his works' (Hebrews 4:5b)

Genesis 2:7 - 'The first man Adam became a living being' (1 Corinthians 15:45b)

Genesis 2:24 - 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh' (Mark 10:7-8a)

Genesis 5:2 - 'made them male and female' (Mark 10:6b)

Genesis 12:1 - 'Get out of your country and from your relatives, and come to a land that I will show you.' (Acts 7:3b)

Genesis 12:3 - 'In you all the nations shall be blessed.' (Galatians 3:8b)

Genesis 12:7; 13:15 - 'and to your seed' (Galatians 3:16b)

Genesis 15:5 - ' 'your descendants' (Romans 4:18d)

Genesis 15:6 - 'Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness' (Romans 4:3a; 4:22b; Galatians 3:6b)

Genesis 15:14 - 'And the nation to whom they will be in bondage I will judge,' (Acts 7:7a)

Genesis 17:5 - ''I have made you a father of many nations' (Romans 4:18b)

Genesis 18:10,14 - 'At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son' (Romans 9:9b)

Genesis 18:18 - 'In you all the nations shall be blessed.' (Galatians 3:8b)

Genesis 21:10 - 'Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.' (Galatians 4:30b)

Genesis 21:12 - 'in Isaac your seed shall be called' (Romans 9:7b; Hebrews 11:18b). 

Genesis 22:17 - 'Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you' (Hebrews 6:14). 

Genesis 22:18 - 'In you all the nations shall be blessed.' (Galatians 3:8b)

Genesis 24:7 - 'and to your seed' (Galatians 3:16b)

Genesis 25:23 - 'The older shall serve the younger' (Romans 9:12b)

Genesis 26:4 - 'In you all the nations shall be blessed.' (Galatians 3:8b)

Genesis 28:14 - 'In you all the nations shall be blessed.' (Galatians 3:8b)

 

Book 2 - EXODUS

Exodus 2:14 - 'Who made you a ruler and judge over us? Do you want to kill me as you killed that Egyptian yesterday?' (Acts 7:27b-28)

Exodus 3:5,7,8,10 - 'Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. I have certainly seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.' (Acts 7:33-34)

Exodus 3:6 - 'I am the God of your fathers - the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' (Acts 7:32a)

Exodus 3:6,15 - 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob'? (Matthew 22:32a; Mark 12:26b; Luke 20:37b)

Exodus 3:12 - 'and after that they shall come out and serve me in this place.' (Acts 7:7b)

Exodus 9:16 - ''Even for this same purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name shall be declared in all the earth' (Romans 9:17b)

Exodus 12:46 - 'Not one of his bones shall be broken.' (John 19:36b)

Exodus 13:2,12,15 - 'Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord' (Luke 2:23b)

Exodus 16:18 - 'He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack' (2 Corinthians 8:15b)

Exodus 19:12-13 - 'And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with an arrow' (Hebrews 12:20b). 

Exodus 20:12 - 'Honour your father and your mother' (Matthew 15:4b; Mark 7:10b)

Exodus 20:12-16 - "'You shall not murder,' 'You shall not commit adultery,' 'You shall not steal,' 'You shall not bear false witness,' 'Honour your father and your mother' (Matthew 19:18b-19a; Mark 10:19b; Luke 18:20b)

Exodus 20:13 - 'You shall not murder' (Matthew 5:21b)

Exodus 20:14 - 'You shall not commit adultery' (Matthew 5:27b)

Exodus 20:17 - 'You shall not covet' (Romans 7:7b)

Exodus 21:2 - 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth' (Matthew 5:38b),

Exodus 21:17 - 'He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death' (Matthew 15:4c; Mark 7:10c).

Exodus 22:28 - 'You shall not speak evil of the ruler of your people.' (Acts 23:5b)

Exodus 24:8 - 'This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you' (Hebrews 9:20b). 

Exodus 25:40 - 'See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain' (Hebrews 8:5b)

Exodus 32:1 - 'Make us gods to go before us; as for this Moses who brought us out of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.' (Acts 7:40b)

Exodus 33:19 - 'I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion' (Romans 9:14b)

 

Book 3 - LEVITICUS

Leviticus 11:44,45 - 'Be holy, for I am holy' (1 Peter 1:16b).

Leviticus 12:8 - 'A pair of turtle doves, or two young pigeons' (Luke 2:24b)

Leviticus 18:5 - 'the man who does those things shall live by them' (Romans 10:5b; Galatians 3:12b) 

Leviticus 19:12 - 'You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform your oaths to the Lord' (Matthew 5:33b)

Leviticus 19:2 - 'Be holy, for I am holy' (1 Peter 1:16b).

Leviticus 19:18 - 'You shall love your neighbour as yourself' (Matthew 5:43b; 19b; 22:39b; Mark 12:31b; Luke 10:27b),"

Leviticus 20:9 - 'He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death' (Matthew 15:4c; Mark 7:10c).

Leviticus 24:20 - 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth' (Matthew 5:38b),

Leviticus 26:12 - 'I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be my people' (2 Corinthians 6:16b)

 

Book 4 - NUMBERS

Numbers 9:12 - 'Not one of his bones shall be broken.' (John 19:36b)

Numbers 30:2 - 'You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform your oaths to the Lord' (Matthew 5:33b)

 

Book 5 - DEUTERONOMY

Deuteronomy 4:24 - 'God is a burning fire' (Hebrews 12:29).

Deuteronomy 5:16 - 'Honour your father and your mother' (Matthew 15:4b; Mark 7:10b)

Deuteronomy 5:16-20 - "'You shall not murder,' 'You shall not commit adultery,' 'You shall not steal,' 'You shall not bear false witness,' 'Honour your father and your mother' (Matthew 19:18b-19a; Mark 10:19b)

Deuteronomy 5:16-20 - 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not murder,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not bear false witness,' 'Honour your father and your mother' (Luke 18:20b)

Deuteronomy 5:17 - 'You shall not murder' (Matthew 5:21b)

Deuteronomy 5:18 - 'You shall not commit adultery' (Matthew 5:27b).

Deuteronomy 5:21 - 'You shall not covet' (Romans 7:7b)

Deuteronomy 6:4,5 - 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength' (Mark 12:29b-30).

Deuteronomy 6:5 - 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind' (Matthew 22:37b).

Deuteronomy 6:5 - 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind' (Luke 10:27a)

Deuteronomy 6:13 - 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only you shall serve' (Matthew 4:10b; Luke 4:8b)

Deuteronomy 6:16 - 'You shall not tempt the Lord your God' (Matthew 4:7b; Luke 4:12b)

Deuteronomy 8:3 - 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God' (Matthew 4:4b; Luke 4:4b)

Deuteronomy 9:19 - 'I am exceedingly afraid and trembling' (Hebrews 12:21b). 

Deuteronomy 17:7 - 'put away from yourselves that wicked person' (1 Corinthians 5:13b)

Deuteronomy 18:15,18,19 - 'The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever he says to you. And it shall come to pass that every soul who will not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.' (Acts 3:22b-24)

Deuteronomy 18:15 - 'The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear.' (Acts 7:37b)

Deuteronomy 19:19 - 'put away from yourselves that wicked person' (1 Corinthians 5:13b)

Deuteronomy 19:21 - 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth' (Matthew 5:38b),

Deuteronomy 21:21 - 'put away from yourselves that wicked person' (1 Corinthians 5:13b)

Deuteronomy 21:23 - 'Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.' (Galatians 3:13b)

Deuteronomy 23:21 - 'You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform your oaths to the Lord' (Matthew 5:33b)

Deuteronomy 24:1 - 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce' (Matthew 5:27b).

Deuteronomy 24:7 - 'put away from yourselves that wicked person' (1 Corinthians 5:13b)

Deuteronomy 25:4 - 'You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain' (1 Corinthians 9:9b)

Deuteronomy 27:26 - 'Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the Law, to do them.' (Galatians 3:10b)

Deuteronomy 29:4 - 'God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, to this very day' (Romans 11:8b)

Deuteronomy 30:12 - ' 'Do not say in your heart, Who will ascend into heaven?' (Romans 10:6b)  

Deuteronomy 30:13 - ''who will descend into the abyss' (Romans 10:7b) 

Deuteronomy 30:14 - ''The word is near you, even in your mouth and in your heart' (Romans 10:8b)

Deuteronomy 31:6 - 'I will never leave you nor forsake you' (Hebrews 13:5). 

Deuteronomy 32:21 - 'I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation. I will anger you by a foolish nation' (Romans 10:19b)

Deuteronomy 32:35 - 'Vengeance is mine: I will repay' (Hebrews 10:30b), 

Deuteronomy 32:36 - 'The Lord will judge his people' (Hebrews 10:30c). 

Deuteronomy 32:43 - 'Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people!' (Romans 15:10b)

Deuteronomy 32:43 in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Greek Septuagint version of the Jewish Bible - 'Let all the angels of God worship him' (Hebrews 1:6b)

 

Book 6 - JOSHUA

Joshua 7:19 -' give God the glory' (John 9:24b)

 

Book 7 - JUDGES

Book 8 - RUTH

Book 9 - 1 SAMUEL

1 Samuel 13:14a paraphrase - .... the son of Jesse .... a man after my own heart, who will do all my will.' (Acts 13:22b)

 

Book 10 - 2 SAMUEL

2 Samuel 7:14 - 'I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty' (2 Corinthians 6:18)

2 Samuel 7:14 -  'I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?' (Hebrews 1:5c)

2 Samuel 22:50 - 'For this reason I will confess to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name' (Romans 15:9b)

 

Book 11 - 1 KINGS

1 Kings 19:10,14 - 'Lord, they have killed your prophets, and torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life' (Romans 11:3)

1 Kings 19:18 - ''I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal' (Romans 11:4b)

 

Book 12 - 2 KINGS

 

Book 13 - 1 CHRONICLES

1 Chronicles 17:13 -  'I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?' (Hebrews 1:5c)

 

Book 14 - 2 CHRONICLES

Book 15 - EZRA

Book 16 - NEHEMIAH

Book 17 - ESTHER

 

Book 18 - JOB

Job 5:13 - 'He catches the wise in their own craftiness' (1 Corinthians 3:19b)

Job 41:11 - 'Or who has first given to him and it shall be repaid to him?' (Romans 11:35) 

 

Book 19 - PSALMS

Psalm 2:1-2 - 'Why did the nations rage, and the people plot vain things? The kings of the earth took their stand, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ' (Acts 4:25b-26)

Psalm 2:7 - ''You are my son, today I have begotten you.' (Acts 13:33b; Hebrews 1:5b; 5:5b)

Psalm 2:9 - 'He shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the potter's vessels shall be broken to pieces' (Revelation 2:28b).

Psalm 2:9 - 'He will rule them with a rod of iron' (Revelation 19:15b),

Psalm 5:9 - 'Their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues they have practised deceit' (Romans 3:13a)

Psalm 8:2 - 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants you have perfected praise'? (Matthew 21:16b)"

Psalm 8:4-6 - 'What is man that you are mindful of him, or the son of man that you take care of him? You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honour, and set him over the works of your hands. You have put all things in subjection under his feet' (Hebrews 2:6b-8a).

Psalm 8:6 - 'He has put all things under his feet' (1 Corinthians 15:25b)

Psalm 10:7 - 'whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness' (Romans 3:14)

Psalm 14:1-3 - 'There is none righteous, no, not one; there is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God. They have all gone out of the way; they have together become unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one' (Romans 3:10b-12)

Psalm 16:8-11 - 'I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken; therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad; moreover my flesh will also rest in hope, because you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor will you allow your holy one to see corruption. You have made known to me the ways of life; you will make me full of joy in your presence.' (Acts 2:25b-28)

Psalm 18:49 - 'For this reason I will confess to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name' (Romans 15:9b)

Psalm 19:4 - 'Their sound has gone out to all the earth, and their word to the ends of the world' (Romans 10:18b)

Psalm 22:1 - 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' (Matthew 27:46b; Mark 15:34b)

Psalm 22:18 - 'They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots' (John 19:24b)

Psalm 22:22 - 'I will declare your name to my brethren; in the midst of the congregation I will sing praise to you' (Hebrews 2:12b).

Psalm 31:5 - 'into your hands I commend my spirit.' (Luke 23:46b).

Psalm 32:1,2 - ''Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin' (Romans 4:7-8)

Psalm 34:20 - 'Not one of his bones shall be broken.' (John 19:36b)

Psalm 35:19 - 'They hated me without a cause' (John 15:25b).

Psalm 36:1 - 'There is no fear of God before their eyes' (Romans 3:18)

Psalm 40:6-8 - 'Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you have prepared for me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you had no pleasure. Then I said, Behold, I have come - in the volume of books it is written of me - to do your will, O God' (Hebrews 10:5b-7). 

Psalm 41:9 - 'He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heal against me' (John 13:18b)

Psalm 44:22 - 'For your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter' (Romans 8:36b

Psalm 45:6,7 - 'Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness more than your companions' (Hebrews 1:8b-9). 

Psalm 51:4 - 'That you may be justified in your words, and may overcome when you are judged' (Romans 3:4b).

Psalm 53:1-3 - 'There is none righteous, no, not one; there is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God. They have all gone out of the way; they have together become unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one' (Romans 3:10b-12)

Psalm 62:12 - 'render to every man according to his works' (Romans 2:6)

Psalm 68:18 - 'When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men' (Ephesians 4:8b).

Psalm 69:4 - 'They hated me without a cause' (John 15:25b).

Psalm 69:9 - 'Zeal for your house has eaten me up' (John 2:17b)

Psalm 69:22,23 - 'Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a recompense to them; let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always' (Romans 11:9b-10)

Psalm 69:25 - 'Let his habitation be desolate, and let no one live in it' (Acts 1:20b)

Psalm 78:2 - 'I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world' (Matthew 13:35b).

Psalm 82:6 -"'I have said you are gods'? (John 10:34b)

Psalm 89:20 - 'I have found David (Acts 13:22b)

Psalm 91:11,12 - 'He shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you', and 'In their hands they shall bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone' (Luke 4:10b-11)."

Psalm 94:11 - 'The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile' (1 Corinthians 3:19d)

Psalm 95:7-11 - 'Today, if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness, where your fathers tested me, proved me, and saw my works for forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said they always go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways. So I swore in my wrath, they shall not enter my rest' (Hebrews 3:7a-11)

Psalm 95:7-8 - 'Today, if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion' (Hebrews 3:15b; 4:7b). 

Psalm 95:11 - 'So I swore in my wrath, they shall not enter my rest' (Hebrews 4:3b)

Psalm 102:25-27 - 'You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands; they will perish, but you remain; and they will all grow old like a garment; like a cloak you will fold them up, and they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will not fail' (Hebrews 1:10b-12). 

Psalm 104:4 - 'Who makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire' (Hebrews 1:7b). 

Psalm 109:8 - 'Let another take his office' (Acts 1:20c).

Psalm 110:1 - 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool?' (Matthew 22:44; Mark 12:36b; Luke 20:42b-43; Acts 2:34-35a)

Psalm 110:1 - 'Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool?' (Hebrews 1:13b) 

Psalm 110:4 - 'The Lord has sworn and will not relent, You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek' (Hebrews 7:21b). 

Psalm 110:4 - 'You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek' (Hebrews 5:6b; 7:17b). 

Psalm 116:10 - 'I believed and therefore I spoke' (2 Corinthians 4:13b)

Psalm 117:1 - 'Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Laud him, all you peoples!' (Romans 15:11b)

Psalm 118:6 - 'The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?' (Hebrews 13:6b) 

Psalm 118:22,23 - 'The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?' (Matthew 21:42b; Mark 12:10b-11)

Psalm 118:22 - 'The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone?' (Luke 20:17b; Acts 4:11; 1 Peter 2:7b)

Psalm 118:26 - 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!' (Matthew 21:9b; 23:29b; Mark 11:9b; Luke 13:35b;19:38b; John 12:13b)

Psalm 135:14 - 'The Lord will judge his people' (Hebrews 10:30c).

Psalm 140:3 - 'the poison of asps is under their lips' (Romans 3:13b) 

 

Book 20 - PROVERBS

Proverbs 3:11-12 - 'My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by him; for whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives' (Hebrews 12:5b-6). 

Proverbs 24:12 - 'render to every man according to his works' (Romans 2:6)

Proverbs 26:11 - 'a dog returns to his own vomit' (2 Peter 2:20b)

 

Book 21 - ECCLESIASTES

Ecclesiastes 7:20 - 'There is none righteous, no, not one; there is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God. They have all gone out of the way; they have together become unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one' (Romans 3:10b-12). 

 

Book 22 - SONG OF SONGS

 

Book 23 - ISAIAH

Isaiah 1:9 - ''Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom and we would have been made like Gomorrah' (Romans 9:29b) 

Isaiah 6:9,10 - 'Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive; for the heart of this people has grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their heart and turn, so that I should heal them' (Matthew 13:14b-15).

Isaiah 6:9,10 - 'seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand; lest they should turn, and their sins be forgiven them'" (Mark 4:12).

Isaiah 6:9 - 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand' (Luke 8:10b)".

Isaiah 6:10 - 'He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes and understand with their heart, lest they should turn, so that I should heal them' (John 12:40)

Isaiah 6:9-10 - 'Go to the people and say, Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you will see, and not perceive; for the heart of this people has grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their heart and turn, so that I should heal them.' (Acts 28:26-27)

Isaiah 7:14 - 'Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel' (Matthew 1:23a).

Isaiah 8:14 - 'Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offence, and whoever believes on him will not be put to shame' (Romans 9:33b)

Isaiah 8:14 - 'a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence' (1 Peter 2:8a).

Isaiah 8:17 - 'I will put my trust in him' (Hebrews 2:13a). 

Isaiah 8:18 - 'Here am I and the children whom God has given me' (Hebrews 2:13b). 

Isaiah 9:1,2 - 'The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles: the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, and upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death, light has dawned' (Matthew 4:15-16).

Isaiah 10:22,23 - ''though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved. For he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth' (Romans 9:27b)

Isaiah 11:10 - 'There shall be a root of Jesse; and he who shall rise to reign over the Gentiles, in him the Gentiles shall hope' (Romans 15:12b)

Isaiah 13:10 - 'the sun will be darkened, the moon will fail to give her light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of heaven will be shaken' (Matthew 24:29b).

Isaiah 13:10 - 'the light of the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give her light; stars will be falling from the sky and the powers of heaven will rock on their foundations' (Mark 13:24b-25).

Isaiah 22:13 - 'Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!' (1 Corinthians 15:33b)

Isaiah 22:22b - 'He who has the key of David. He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens' (Revelation 3:7).

Isaiah 25:8 - 'Death is swallowed up in victory' (1 Corinthians 15:54b)

Isaiah 28:16 - 'Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offence, and whoever believes on him will not be put to shame' (Romans 9:33b)

Isaiah 28:16 - ''Whoever believes on him will not be put to shame' (Romans 10:11b)

Isaiah 28:16 - 'Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious, and he who believes on him will by no means be put to shame' (1 Peter 2:6b)

Isaiah 29:10 - 'God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, to this very day' (Romans 11:8b)

Isaiah 29:13 - 'These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. And in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men' (Matthew 15:8-9)."

Isaiah 29:13 - 'This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. And in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men' (Mark 7:6b).

Isaiah 29:14 - 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent' (1 Corinthians 1:19b)

Isaiah 29:16 - ' 'Why did you make me like this?' (Romans 9:20b)

Isaiah 34:4 - 'the sun will be darkened, the moon will fail to give her light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of heaven will be shaken' (Matthew 24:29b).

Isaiah 34:4 - 'the light of the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give her light; stars will be falling from the sky and the powers of heaven will rock on their foundations' (Mark 13:24b-25).

Isaiah 40:3 - 'The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight' (Matthew 3:3b; Mark 1:3)

Isaiah 40:3 - 'The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord' (John 1:23b)

Isaiah 40:3-5 - 'The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill brought low; and the crooked places shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth; and all flesh shall see the salvation of God' (Luke 3:4b-6).

Isaiah 40:6-8 - 'All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away, but the word of the Lord endures for ever' (1 Peter 1:24-25a).

Isaiah 40:13 - 'Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has become his counsellor?' (Romans 11:34)  

Isaiah 40:13 - 'Who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?' (1 Corinthians 2:16b)

Isaiah 42:1-4 - 'Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased; I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will declare justice to the Gentiles. He will not quarrel nor cry out, nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets. A bruised reed he will not break, and smoking flax he will not quench, till he sends forth justice to victory. And in his name Gentiles will trust' (Matthew 12:18-21).

Isaiah 45:9 - ' 'Why did you make me like this?' (Romans 9:20b)

Isaiah 49:6 - 'I have set you to be a light to the Gentiles, that you should be for salvation to the ends of the earth.' (Acts 13:47b)

Isaiah 52:1 - 'To whom he was not announced, they shall see; and those who have not heard shall understand' (Romans 15:21b)

Isaiah 52:5 -  'the very name of God is cursed among the Gentiles because of the behaviour of Jews?' (Romans 2:24b)

Isaiah 52:7 - 'How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!' (Romans 10:15b)  

Isaiah 52:11 - 'Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you' (2 Corinthians 6:17)

Isaiah 53:1 - 'Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?' (John 12:38b)

Isaiah 53:1 - 'Lord, who has believed our report?' (Romans 10:16b)  

Isaiah 53:7-8 - 'He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb silent before its shearer, so he opened not his mouth. In his humiliation his justice was taken away. And who will declare his generation? For his life is taken from the earth.' (Acts 8:32b-33)

Isaiah 53:12 - 'And he was numbered with the transgressors' (Luke 22:37b)

Isaiah 54:1 - 'Rejoice, O barren, you who do not bear! Break forth and shout, you who do not travail! For the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband.' (Galatians 4:27b)

Isaiah 54:13 - 'And they shall all be taught by God,' (John 6:45b)

Isaiah 55:3 - ''I will give you the sure mercies of David.' (Acts 13:34b)

Isaiah 56:7 - 'My house shall be called a house of prayer' (Matthew 21:13b).

Isaiah 56:7 - 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations?' (Mark 11:17b).

Isaiah 56:7 - 'My house is a house of prayer' (Luke 19:46b)

Isaiah 59:7,8 - 'Their feet are swift to shed blood; destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known' (Romans 3:15-17) 

Isaiah 59:20,21 - 'The deliverer will come out of Zion, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob, for this is may covenant with them, when I take away their sins' (Romans 11:26b-27)

Isaiah 61:1,2 - 'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord' (Luke 4:18-19).

Isaiah 64:4 - 'Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love him' (1 Corinthians 2:9b)

Isaiah 65:1 - 'I was found by those who did not seek me; I was made manifest to those who did not ask for me' (Romans 10:20b)

Isaiah 65:2 - 'All day long I have stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people' (Romans 10:21b)

Isaiah 66:1,2 - 'Heaven is my throne. and earth is my footstool. What house will you build for me? says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest? Has my hand not made all these things?' (Acts 7:49-50)

Isaiah 66:24 - 'their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched' (Mark 9:48).

 

Book 24 - JEREMIAH

Jeremiah 7:11 - 'den of thieves!' (Matthew 21:13c; Mark 11:17d; Luke 19:46d)

Jeremiah 9:24 - 'He who glories, let him glory in the Lord (1 Corinthians 1:31b; 2 Corinthians 10:17).

Jeremiah 31:15 - 'A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted, because they were no more' (Matthew 2:18).

Jeremiah 31:31-34 - 'Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah not - according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel: After those days, says the Lord, I will put my laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall by my people. None of them shall teach his neighbour, and none his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more' (Hebrews 8:8a-12)

Jeremiah 31:33 - 'This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them' (Hebrews 10:16). 

Jeremiah 31:34 - 'Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more' (Hebrews 10:17). 

Jeremiah 32:6-9 - 'And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the value of him who was priced, whom they of the children of Israel priced, and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed them' (Matthew 27:9b-10).

Jeremiah 32:38 - 'I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be my people' (2 Corinthians 6:16b)

 

Book 25 - LAMENTATIONS

 

Book 26 - EZEKIEL

Ezekiel 20:34,41 - 'Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you' (2 Corinthians 6:17)

Ezekiel 36:22 -  'the very name of God is cursed among the Gentiles because of the behaviour of Jews?' (Romans 2:24b)

Ezekiel 37:27 - 'I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be my people' (2 Corinthians 6:16b)

 

Book 27 - DANIEL

Daniel 7:13 - 'the Son of Man' (Revelation 14:14b).

Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11 - 'abomination of desolation' (Matthew 24:15b; Mark 13:14b)

 

Book 28 - HOSEA

Hosea 1:10 - ''And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they will be called sons of the living God' (Romans 9:26)

Hosea 2:23 - ''I will call them my people, who were not my people, and her beloved, who was not beloved' (Romans 9:25b)

Hosea 6:6 - 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice' (Matthew 9:13b).

Hosea 10:8 - 'to say to the mountains, Fall on us! and to the hills, Cover us!' (Luke 23:30b)

Hosea 13:14 - 'O death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?' (1 Corinthians 15:55)

 

Book 29 - JOEL

Joel 2:28-32 - 'And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams. And on my menservants and on my maidservants I will pour out my Spirit in those days and they shall prophesy. I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath: blood and fire and vapour of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and notable day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.' (Acts 2:17-21)

Joel 2:32 - ''Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved' (Romans 10:13)

 

Book 30 - AMOS

Amos 5:25-27 - 'Did you offer me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? Yes, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, images which you made to worship; and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.' (Acts 7:42b-43)

Amos 9:11,12 - 'After this I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle of David which has fallen down. I will rebuild its ruins, and I will set it up, so that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord who does all these things. (Acts 15:16-18)

 

Book 31 - OBADIAH

Book 32 - JONAH

 

Book 33 - MICAH

Micah 5:2 - 'But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are not the least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel' (Matthew 2:6)."

Micah 7:6 - 'set a man against his own father, a daughter against her own mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law', and 'a man's foes will be those of his own household' (Matthew 10:35b-36)

 

Book 34 - NAHUM

Nahum 1:15 - 'How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!' (Romans 10:15b)

Book 35 - HABAKKUK

Habakkuk 1:5 - ''Behold, you despisers, marvel and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will by no means believe, though one were to declare it to you.' (Acts 13:41)

Habakkuk 2:3,4 - 'For yet a little while, and he who is coming will come and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, my soul has no pleasure in him' (Hebrews 10:37-38). 

Habakkuk 2:4 - 'The just shall live by faith' (Romans 1:17b; Galatians 3:11b).

 

Book 36 - ZEPHANIAH

Book 37 - HAGGAI

Haggai 2:6 - 'Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven' (Hebrews 12:26b).

 

Book 38 - ZECHARIAH

Zechariah 9:9 - 'Tell the daughter of Zion, Behold your king is coming to you, lowly, and sitting on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey' (Matthew 21:5).

Zechariah 9:9 - 'Fear not, daughter of Zion: behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt' (John 12:15)

Zechariah 11:12,13 - 'And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the value of him who was priced, whom they of the children of Israel priced, and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed them' (Matthew 27:9b-10).

Zechariah 12:10 - 'They shall look on him whom they pierced.' (John 19:37b)

Zechariah 13:7 - 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered' (Matthew 26:31b).

Zechariah 13:7 - 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered' (Mark 14:27b).

 

Book 39 - MALACHI

Malachi 1:2,3 -  'Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated' (Romans 9:23b)

Malachi 3:1 - 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you' (Matthew 11:10b; Mark 1:2b; Luke 7:27b)

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