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Jesse, Obed, Boaz, Salmon, Nahson, (Luke 3, 32)
Doesn't Scripture say that the Christ is a descendant of David and from Bethlehem, the city of David?" (John 7, 42)
You are the children of the prophets and heirs of the covenant which God gave to your ancestors when he said to Abraham: All the families of the earth will be blessed through your descendant. (Acts 3, 25)
After that time, God removed him and raised up David as king, to whom he bore witness saying: I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will do all I want him to do. (Acts 13, 22)
regarding his Son, who was born in the flesh a descendant of David, (Romans 1, 3)
If God promised Abraham, or rather his descendant, that the world would belong to him, this was not because of his obeying the Law, but because he was just and a friend of God through faith. (Romans 4, 13)
And so I ask: Has God rejected his people? Of course not. I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. (Romans 11, 1)
Isaiah says: A descendant of Jesse will come who will rule the pagan nations and they will hope in him. (Romans 15, 12)
Well now, what God promised Abraham was for his descendant. Scripture does not say: for the descendants, as if they were many. It means only one: this will be for your descendant, and this is Christ. (Galatians 3, 16)
Why then the Law? It was added with sin in mind; it was something added; that it was only valid until the descendant to whom the promise was addressed should come; and it was put into effect by the angels with Moses as a mediator (Galatians 3, 19)