Romans 10:19

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But again I ask, didn’t Israel understand? First Moses says,“I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger.”

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  • Deut 32:21 : 21 They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.
  • Rom 11:11 : 11 I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall, did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous.
  • Rom 11:14 : 14 if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.
  • 1 Pet 2:10 : 10 You once were not a people, but now you are God’s people. You were shown no mercy, but now you have received mercy.
  • 1 Cor 1:12 : 12 Now I mean this, that each of you is saying,“I am with Paul,” or“I am with Apollos,” or“I am with Cephas,” or“I am with Christ.”
  • 1 Cor 7:29 : 29 And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,
  • 1 Cor 10:19 : 19 Am I saying that idols or food sacrificed to them amount to anything?
  • 1 Cor 11:22 : 22 Do you not have houses so that you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show contempt for the church of God by shaming those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I will not praise you for this!
  • 1 Cor 12:2 : 2 You know that when you were pagans you were often led astray by speechless idols, however you were led.
  • 1 Cor 15:50 : 50 Now this is what I am saying, brothers and sisters: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
  • Ps 115:5-8 : 5 They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see, 6 ears, but cannot hear, noses, but cannot smell, 7 hands, but cannot touch, feet, but cannot walk. They cannot even clear their throats. 8 Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.
  • Isa 44:18-20 : 18 They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern. 19 No one thinks to himself, nor do they comprehend or understand and say to themselves:‘I burned half of it in the fire– yes, I baked bread over the coals; I roasted meat and ate it. With the rest of it should I make a disgusting idol? Should I bow down to dry wood?’ 20 He feeds on ashes; his deceived mind misleads him. He cannot rescue himself, nor does he say,‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!
  • Jer 10:14 : 14 All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.
  • Hos 2:23 : 23 Then I will plant her as my own in the land. I will have pity on‘No Pity’(Lo-Ruhamah). I will say to‘Not My People’(Lo-Ammi),‘You are my people!’ And he will say,‘You are my God!’”
  • Rom 1:21-22 : 21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
  • Rom 3:26 : 26 This was also to demonstrate his righteousness in the present time, so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who lives because of Jesus’ faithfulness.
  • Rom 10:18 : 18 But I ask, have they not heard? Yes, they have: Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

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  • Deut 32:20-21
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    20He said,“I will reject them, I will see what will happen to them; for they are a perverse generation, children who show no loyalty.

    21They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.

  • Rom 10:20-21
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    75%

    20And Isaiah is even bold enough to say,“I was found by those who did not seek me; I became well known to those who did not ask for me.”

    21But about Israel he says,“All day long I held out my hands to this disobedient and stubborn people!”

  • Rom 10:18
    74%

    18But I ask, have they not heard? Yes, they have: Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

  • Deut 32:16
    74%

    16They made him jealous with other gods, they enraged him with abhorrent idols.

  • Rom 11:11
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    11I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall, did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous.

  • Jer 5:15
    72%

    15The LORD says,“Listen, nation of Israel! I am about to bring a nation from far away to attack you. It will be a nation that was founded long ago and has lasted for a long time. It will be a nation whose language you will not know. Its people will speak words that you will not be able to understand.

  • Rom 10:2
    72%

    2For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not in line with the truth.

  • Jer 7:19
    71%

    19But I am not really the one being troubled!” says the LORD.“Rather they are bringing trouble on themselves to their own shame!

  • Deut 9:13
    71%

    13Moreover, he said to me,“I have taken note of these people; they are a stubborn lot!

  • Exod 32:9-10
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    9Then the LORD said to Moses:“I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!

    10So now, leave me alone so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.”

  • Jer 5:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20“Proclaim this message among the descendants of Jacob. Make it known throughout Judah.

    21Tell them:‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:

  • Jer 15:14
    71%

    14I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you know nothing about. For my anger is like a fire that will burn against you.”

  • Ps 78:58
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    58They made him angry with their pagan shrines, and made him jealous with their idols.

  • 1 Cor 10:22
    71%

    22Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?

  • Heb 3:16
    70%

    16For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership?

  • Neh 9:18
    70%

    18even when they made a cast image of a calf for themselves and said,‘This is your God who brought you up from Egypt,’ or when they committed atrocious blasphemies.

  • Rom 11:1-2
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    1Israel’s Rejection not Complete nor Final So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

    2God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

  • Ezek 32:9
    70%

    9I will disturb many peoples, when I bring about your destruction among the nations, among countries you do not know.

  • Ps 95:10
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    10For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said,‘These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’

  • Hos 9:17
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    17My God will reject them, for they have not obeyed him; so they will be fugitives among the nations.

  • Mic 5:15
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    15With furious anger I will carry out vengeance on the nations that do not obey me.”

  • Ps 81:11
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    11But my people did not obey me; Israel did not submit to me.

  • Ezek 36:5
    69%

    5therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Surely I have spoken in the fire of my zeal against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who with great joy and utter contempt have made my land their property and prey, because of its pasture.’

  • 1 Kgs 9:7
    69%

    7then I will remove Israel from the land I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed among all the nations.

  • Joel 2:18
    69%

    18The LORD’s Response Then the LORD became zealous for his land; he had compassion on his people.

  • Rom 11:7-8
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    69%

    7What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened,

    8as it is written,“God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.”

  • Num 14:11
    69%

    11The Punishment from God The LORD said to Moses,“How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?

  • Rom 9:25-26
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    25As he also says in Hosea:“I will call those who were not my people,‘My people,’ and I will call her who was unloved,‘My beloved.’”

    26“And in the very place where it was said to them,‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called‘sons of the living God.’”

  • Heb 3:10
    69%

    10“Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said,‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’

  • Jer 2:11
    69%

    11Has a nation ever changed its gods(even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, for a god that cannot help them at all!

  • Jer 48:27
    69%

    27For did not you people of Moab laugh at the people of Israel? Did you think that they were nothing but thieves, that you shook your head in contempt every time you talked about them?

  • Jer 4:22
    69%

    22The LORD answered,“This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”

  • Rom 11:25
    69%

    25For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: A partial hardening has happened to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

  • Rom 11:19
    69%

    19Then you will say,“The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”

  • Judg 2:20
    69%

    20A Divine Decision The LORD was furious with Israel. He said,“This nation has violated the terms of the covenant I made with their ancestors by disobeying me.

  • Isa 27:11
    69%

    11When its branches get brittle, they break; women come and use them for kindling. For these people lack understanding, therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.

  • Jer 6:18
    69%

    18So the LORD said,“Hear, you nations! Be witnesses and take note of what will happen to these people.

  • Acts 28:26
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    26when he said,‘Go to this people and say,“You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive.

  • Isa 6:9
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    9He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’

  • Ps 78:21
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    21When the LORD heard this, he was furious. A fire broke out against Jacob, and his anger flared up against Israel,

  • Ps 79:6
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    6Pour out your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that do not pray to you!

  • Ezek 35:10
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    10“‘You said,“These two nations, these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,”– although the LORD was there–

  • Isa 42:25
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    25So he poured out his fierce anger on them, along with the devastation of war. Its flames encircled them, but they did not realize it; it burned against them, but they did not take it to heart.