Romans 11:29

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed.

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  • Rom 8:28 : 28 And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.
  • Heb 7:21 : 21 (For those were made priests without an oath, but this one was made a priest with an oath by him who says of him, The Lord gave his oath, which he will not take back, that you are a priest for ever);
  • Num 23:19 : 19 God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of man, that his purpose may be changed: what he has said, will he not do? and will he not give effect to the words of his mouth?
  • Mal 3:6 : 6 For I am the Lord, I am unchanged; and so you, O sons of Jacob, have not been cut off.
  • Hos 13:14 : 14 I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.

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    27And this is my agreement with them, when I will take away their sins.

    28As far as the good news is in question, they are cut off from God on account of you, but as far as the selection is in question, they are loved on account of the fathers.

  • Rom 11:30-32
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    30For as you, in time past, were not under the rule of God, but now have got mercy through their turning away,

    31So in the same way these have gone against the orders of God, so that by the mercy given to you they may now get mercy.

    32For God has let them all go against his orders, so that he might have mercy on them all.

  • Acts 11:17-18
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    17If then God gave them, when they had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the same as he gave to us, who was I to go against God?

    18And hearing these things they said nothing more, but gave glory to God, saying, Then to the Gentiles as to us has God given a change of heart, so that they may have life.

  • Rom 9:11
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    11Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,

  • Rom 2:11
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    11For one man is not different from another before God.

  • Rom 11:21-23
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    21For, if God did not have mercy on the natural branches, he will not have mercy on you.

    22See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.

    23And they, if they do not go on without faith, will be united to the tree again, because God is able to put them in again.

  • Rom 9:14-16
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    14What may we say then? is God not upright? let it not be said.

    15For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity.

    16So then, it is not by the desire or by the attempt of man, but by the mercy of God.

  • Rom 11:5-8
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    5In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace.

    6But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.

    7What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.

    8As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.

  • Rom 11:15
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    15For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?

  • Lam 3:31
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    31For the Lord does not give a man up for ever.

  • Rom 11:11
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    11So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy.

  • 2 Tim 1:9
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    9Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

  • Heb 11:40
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    40Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.

  • Rom 2:4-5
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    4Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?

    5But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

  • Rom 11:1-2
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    1So I say, Has God put his people on one side? Let there be no such thought. For I am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

    2God has not put away the people of his selection. Or have you no knowledge of what is said about Elijah in the holy Writings? how he says words to God against Israel,

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    6But it is not as if the word of God was without effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel:

  • Eph 2:8-9
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    8Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:

    9Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself.

  • Acts 15:19
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    19For this reason my decision is, that we do not put trouble in the way of those who from among the Gentiles are turned to God;

  • Rom 1:31
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    31Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy:

  • Rom 9:4
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    4Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God:

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    28And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

  • Rom 9:23-24
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    23And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,

    24Even us, who were marked out by him, not only from the Jews, but from the Gentiles?

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    3And if some have no faith, will that make the faith of God without effect?

  • 2 Pet 3:9
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    9The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.

  • Rom 4:6
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    6As David says that there is a blessing on the man to whose account God puts righteousness without works, saying,

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    10In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.

  • Num 23:20
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    20See, I have had orders to give blessing: and he has given a blessing which I have no power to take away.

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    15Praise be to God for what he has given, which words have no power to say.

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    33Who will say anything against the saints of God? It is God who makes us clear from evil;

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    29Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles:

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    29And further, the Glory of Israel will not say what is false, and his purpose may not be changed: for he is not a man, whose purpose may be changed.

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    10And God saw what they did, how they were turned from their evil way; and God's purpose was changed as to the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did it not.

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    9For God's purpose for us is not wrath, but salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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    9What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;