Notable Verses Supporting Christian Doctrines (OT)

Taken From "Notable Verses I Struggle With..." KNOWT

Isaiah 49:5 (Israel can NOT be God’s Servant in Isaiah 53)

“God is the one who made me in my mother’s womb, so that I could be His servant. He wanted me to lead Jacob and Israel back to Him. God gives me honor. I get my strength from my God”

Psalms 50:8-10 (Fulfillment of Sacrifice through Jesus / Insufficiency of Animal Sacrifices)

“The problem I have with you is not your sacrifices or the burnt offerings you bring Me everyday. Why would I want more bulls from your barns or goats from your pens? I already own all the animals in the forest. I own all the animals on a thousand hills”

Isaiah 1:11-14 (Fulfillment of Sacrifice through Jesus / Insufficiency of Animal Sacrifices)

“God says, ‘Why do you continue giving me all these sacrifices? I have had enough of your sacrifices of rams and the fat from well-fed animals. I don’t want the blood of those bulls, sheep, and goats. When you people come to meet with me, you trample everything in My yard. Who told you to do this?’ ‘Don’t keep bringing me those worthless sacrifices. I hate the incense you give Me. I cannot stand your festivals for the New Moon, the Sabbath, and other special meeting days. I hate the evil you do during those holy times together. I hate your monthly meetings and councils. They have become like heavy weights to Me, and I am tired of carrying them’”

Jeremiah 7:21-23 (Fulfillment of Sacrifice through Jesus / Insufficiency of Animal Sacrifices)

“This is what God says: ‘Go and offer as many burnt offerings and sacrifices as you want. Eat the meat of those sacrifices yourselves. I brought your ancestors out of Egypt. I spoke to them, but I did not give them any commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices. I only gave them this command: ‘Obey Me and I will be your God, and you will be My people. Do that I command, and good things will happen to you’”

Jeremiah 14:12 (Fulfillment of Sacrifice through Jesus / Insufficiency of Animal Sacrifices / Insufficiency of Prayers)

“They might begin to fast and pray to Me, but I will not listen to their prayers. Even if they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings to Me, I will not accept them. I will destroy the people of Judah with war. I will take away their food, and they will starve. And I will destroy them with terrible diseases’”

Jeremiah 3:16 (Fulfillment of Law through Jesus / Jesus as Temple)

“‘At that time people will never again say, ‘I remember the days when we had the Ark of the Covenant.’ They will not even think about the Ark of the Covenant anymore. They will not even remember or miss it. They will never make another Ark of the Covenant’”

Jeremiah 4:4 (Internalization of the Word through Jesus)

“‘Become God’s people, change your hearts’”

Jeremiah 17:1 (Internalization of the Word through Jesus)

“The sins of Judah are written where they cannot be erased - cut into stone with an iron pen, cut deep with a hard tip into the stone that is the hearts of the people. Their sins are carved into the horns of their altars”

In other words, this provides earlier context for the namesake book’s discussion of the “New Covenant” since it is going to take an entirely new covenant and thus a fundamental transformation from having stone hearts to having loving ones

Jeremiah 9:25-26 (Internalization of the Word through Jesus / Fulfillment of Law through Jesus / Insufficiency of the Blood Sacrifice of Circumcision)

“This is what God says: ‘The time is coming when I will punish all those who are circumcised only in the body. I am talking about the people of the nations of Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all those who live in the desert. The circumcision they do is not the kind God wants. But the people of Israel are not really circumcised either. They are not circumcised in their hearts’”

Isaiah 4:4 (Fulfillment of Sacrifice through Jesus: Cleansing Blood)

“[At that time] God will wash away the filth from the daughters of Zion. He will wash away the blood from Jerusalem. With a spirit of judgment that burns like fire, He will make everything pure”

Psalms 51:5 (Original Sin)

“I was born to do wrong, a sinner before I left my mother’s womb”

Psalms 58:3 (Original Sin)

“Those wicked people started doing wrong as soon as they were born. They have been liars from birth”

Psalms 51:11 (Holy Spirit)

“Don’t push me away or take Your Holy Spirit from me”

Psalms 71:6 (Pro-Life)

“I depended on You even before I was born. I relied on You even in my mother’s womb. I have always prayed to You”

Psalms 127:3 (Pro-Life)

“Children are a gift from God, a reward from a mother’s womb”

Psalms 139:12-16 (Pro-Life)

“Even the darkness is not dark to You. The night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are the same. You formed the way I think and feel. You put me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You because you made me in such a wonderful way. I know how amazing that was! You could see my bones grow as my body took shape, hidden in my mother’s womb. You watched my body grow there. In Your book You wrote about all the days planned for me before any of them had happened”

Isaiah 44:24 (Pro-Life)

“The one who rescued you is God, the One who formed you in your mother’s womb. He says, ‘I, God, made everything. I put the skies there myself. I spread out the earth before me’”

Isaiah 46:3 (Pro-Life)

“Family of Jacob, listen to me! You who are left from the family of Israel, listen! I have carried you since you left your mother’s womb. I carried you when you were born”

Isaiah 49:5 (Pro-Life)

“God is the One who made me in my mother’s womb, so that I could be His servant. He wanted me to lead Jacob and Israel back to Him. God gives me honor. I get my strength from my God”

Jeremiah 1:5 (Pro-Life)

“Before I made you in your mother’s womb, I knew you, Before you were born, I chose you for a special work, I chose you to be a prophet to the nations”

Psalms 96:2-3 (Evangelization)

“Sing to God and praise His name! Tell the good news every day about how He saves us! Tell all the nations how wonderful He is! Tell people everywhere about the amazing things He does”

Psalms 110:1 (Trinity)

“God said to my God, ‘Sit at my right side, while I put your enemies to control’”

Jeremiah 17:4 (Hell)

“You will lose the land I gave you. I will let your enemies take you to be their slaves. That is because I am very angry. My anger is like a hot fire, and you will be burned forever”

Jeremiah 17:27 (Hell)

“‘But if you don’t listen to me and obey me, bad things will happen. If you carry loads into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, you are not keeping it as a holy day. So I will start a fire that cannot be put out. That fire will start at the gates of Jerusalem, and it will burn until it burns even the palaces’”

Jeremiah 23:3 (Jesus as Shepherd)

“‘I sent My sheep to other countries. But I will gather together My sheep that are left, and I will bring them back to their pasture. When My sheep are back in their pasture, they will have many children and grow in number. I will place new shepherds over My sheep. They will take care of My sheep, and My sheep will never again feel afraid. None of My sheep will be lost’” 

Jeremiah 23:7-8 (New Exodus: Salvation)

“‘So the time is coming’, says God, ‘when people will not make a promise by saying, ‘as surely as God lives, the One who brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt…’ But people will say something new: ‘As surely as God lives, the One who brought the Israelites out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had sent them…’ Then the people of Israel will live in their own land”

Jeremiah 23:16-18 (Jesus knows the Father’s Will)

“This is what God says: ‘Don’t pay attention to what those prophets are saying to you. They are trying to fool you. They talk about visions, but they did not get their visions from me. Their visions come from their own minds. Some of the people hate the real messages from God, so the prophets give them a different message. They say, ‘You will have peace.’ Some of the people are very stubborn. They do only what they want to do. So the prophets say, ‘Nothing bad will happen to you!’ But none of these prophets have stood in the heavenly council”

Jeremiah 24:7 (New Covenant / New Heart)

“‘I will make them want to know Me. They will know that I am God. They will be My people, and I will be their God. I will do this because the prisoners in Babylon will turn to me with their whole hearts’”

Jeremiah 25:32-33 (Final Judgement)

“This is what God says: ‘Disasters will soon spread from country to country. They will come like a powerful storm to all the faraway places on earth!’ The dead bodies of those killed by God will reach from one of the earth to the other. No one will cry for them. No one will gather up their bodies and bury them. They will be left lying on the ground like dung”