What does Romans 9:4 say belongs to Israel?
Romans 9:4 states that to the Israelites belong the adoption, also called positioning, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises. These are the privileges and inheritances that pertain to Israel according to the apostle Paul.
Les explains that in Romans 9:4, Paul is speaking of his kinsmen according to the flesh, who are Israelites, and he lists what pertains to them: the adoption (or positioning), the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises. Les notes that the giving of the law was also a covenant, and that God promised the nation over and over. These are the things that belong to Israel according to the flesh.
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;