Romans 11:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah? how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,

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  • 1 Pet 1:2 : 2 Chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification by the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you.
  • Gen 44:15 : 15 And Joseph said to them, What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that such a man as I can certainly divine?
  • Exod 32:1 : 1 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, "Arise, make us gods to go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him."
  • Num 16:15 : 15 And Moses was very angry, and said to the LORD, Respect not their offering: I have not taken one donkey from them, nor have I harmed one of them.
  • Neh 9:30 : 30 Yet for many years You had patience with them and testified against them by Your Spirit in Your prophets. Yet they would not give ear; therefore, You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
  • Ps 94:14 : 14 For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
  • Jer 18:19-23 : 19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me. 20 Shall evil be repaid for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before you to speak good for them, and to turn away your wrath from them. 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle. 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have dug a pit to take me, and hidden snares for my feet. 23 Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you; deal thus with them in the time of your anger.
  • Luke 4:1 : 1 And Jesus, being full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
  • John 4:1-3 : 1 When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, 2 though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples, 3 he left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.
  • John 4:11 : 11 The woman said to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: where then do you get that living water?
  • Acts 3:17 : 17 And now, brethren, I know that through ignorance you did it, as did also your rulers.
  • Acts 7:40 : 40 Saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us; as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.
  • Acts 13:48 : 48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
  • Acts 15:18 : 18 Known to God are all His works from the beginning of the world.
  • Rom 8:29-30 : 29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
  • Rom 9:6 : 6 Not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel:
  • Rom 9:23 : 23 And that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,
  • 1 Cor 6:2 : 2 Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
  • Phil 1:22 : 22 But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from my labor; yet what I shall choose I do not know.
  • Heb 1:1 : 1 God, who at various times and in different manners spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets,

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  • 1I say then, Has God cast away His people? Certainly not. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

  • Rom 11:3-5
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    3Lord, they have killed Your prophets, and torn down Your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

    4But what is God's answer to him? I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.

    5Even so then, at this present time there is also a remnant according to the election of grace.

  • Rom 11:7-8
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    7What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded.

    8According as it is written, God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, to this day.

  • Rom 11:19-30
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    19You will say then, The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.

    20Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear.

    21For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either.

    22Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.

    23And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

    24For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

    25For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

    26And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

    27For this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins.

    28Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.

    29For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.

    30For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience,

  • 6Not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel:

  • 19But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says: "I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, I will anger you by a foolish nation."

  • Rom 11:11-12
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    11I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

    12Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness?

  • Rom 10:1-2
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    1Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved.

    2For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

  • Rom 9:24-27
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    24Even us whom He has called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

    25As He says also in Hosea, I will call them My people, who were not My people; and her beloved, who was not beloved.

    26And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there they shall be called the children of the living God.

    27Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

  • 10Who once were not a people, but now are the people of God; who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

  • 4Who are Israelites; to whom belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises;

  • 22For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it has pleased the LORD to make you his people.

  • 17And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree,

  • 15For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

  • 31For the Lord will not cast off forever:

  • 24Do you not consider what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD has chosen, he has even cast them off? Thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

  • 10And he said, I have been very zealous for the LORD God of hosts, for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.

  • 14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

  • 2Israel shall cry to me, 'My God, we know you.'

  • 5For Israel has not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

  • 21But to Israel he says: "All day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and contrary people."

  • 14For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

  • 4Knowing, beloved brothers, your election by God.

  • 10Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.

  • 11For the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him who calls;

  • 36And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.

  • Deut 9:26-27
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    26I prayed therefore to the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, do not destroy your people and your inheritance, which you have redeemed through your greatness, which you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

    27Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin:

  • 1For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob.

  • 29Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also,

  • 11Has a nation changed their gods, which are not gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.