Romans 11:2

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God 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?

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  • 1 Pet 1:2 : 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father by being set apart by the Spirit for obedience and for sprinkling with Jesus Christ’s blood. May grace and peace be yours in full measure!
  • Gen 44:15 : 15 Joseph said to them,“What did you think you were doing? Don’t you know that a man like me can find out things like this by divination?”
  • Exod 32:1 : 1 The Sin of the Golden Calf When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him,“Get up, make us gods that will go before us. As for this fellow Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him!”
  • Num 16:15 : 15 Moses was very angry, and he said to the LORD,“Have no respect for their offering! I have not taken so much as one donkey from them, nor have I harmed any one of them!”
  • Neh 9:30 : 30 You prolonged your kindness with them for many years, and you solemnly admonished them by your Spirit through your prophets. Still they paid no attention, so you delivered them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.
  • Ps 94:14 : 14 Certainly the LORD does not forsake his people; he does not abandon the nation that belongs to him.
  • Jer 18:19-23 : 19 Then I said,“LORD, pay attention to me. Listen to what my enemies are saying. 20 Should good be paid back with evil? Yet they are virtually digging a pit to kill me. Just remember how I stood before you pleading on their behalf to keep you from venting your anger on them. 21 So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle. 22 Let cries of terror be heard in their houses when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them. For they have virtually dug a pit to capture me and have hidden traps for me to step into. 23 But you, LORD, know all their plots to kill me. Do not pardon their crimes! Do not ignore their sins as though you had erased them! Let them be brought down in defeat before you! Deal with them while you are still angry!
  • Luke 4:1 : 1 The Temptation of Jesus Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,
  • John 4:1-3 : 1 Departure From Judea Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were), 3 he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee.
  • John 4:11 : 11 “Sir,” the woman said to him,“you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?
  • Acts 3:17 : 17 And now, brothers, I know you acted in ignorance, as your rulers did too.
  • Acts 7:40 : 40 saying to Aaron,‘Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt– we do not know what has happened to him!’
  • Acts 13:48 : 48 When the Gentiles heard this, they began to rejoice and praise the word of the Lord, and all who had been appointed for eternal life believed.
  • Acts 15:18 : 18 known from long ago.
  • Rom 8:29-30 : 29 because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.
  • Rom 9:6 : 6 It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,
  • Rom 9:23 : 23 And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory–
  • 1 Cor 6:2 : 2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent to settle trivial suits?
  • Phil 1:22 : 22 Now if I am to go on living in the body, this will mean productive work for me, yet I don’t know which I prefer:
  • Heb 1:1 : 1 ¶ Introduction: God Has Spoken Fully and Finally in His Son After God spoke long ago in various portions and in various ways to our ancestors through the prophets,

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  • Rom 11:1
    82%

    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.

  • Rom 11:3-5
    3 verses
    74%

    3“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars; I alone am left and they are seeking my life!”

    4But what was the divine response to him?“I have kept for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal.”

    5So in the same way at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.

  • Rom 11:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    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.”

  • Rom 11:19-30
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    19Then you will say,“The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”

    20Granted! They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear!

    21For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.

    22Notice therefore the kindness and harshness of God– harshness toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness toward you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

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

    24For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?

    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.

    26And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:“The Deliverer will come out of Zion; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob.

    27And this is my covenant with them, when I take away their sins.”

    28In regard to the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but in regard to election they are dearly loved for the sake of the fathers.

    29For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

    30Just as you were formerly disobedient to God, but have now received mercy due to their disobedience,

  • Rom 9:6
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    6It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,

  • Rom 10:19
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    19But 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.”

  • Rom 11:11-12
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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.

    12Now if their transgression means riches for the world and their defeat means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full restoration bring?

  • Rom 10:1-2
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    69%

    1Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites is for their salvation.

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

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

    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.’”

    27And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel,“Though the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved,

  • 1 Pet 2:10
    68%

    10You once were not a people, but now you are God’s people. You were shown no mercy, but now you have received mercy.

  • Rom 9:4
    68%

    4who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

  • 1 Sam 12:22
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    22The LORD will not abandon his people because he wants to uphold his great reputation. The LORD was pleased to make you his own people.

  • Rom 11:17
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    17Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root,

  • Rom 11:15
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    15For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

  • Lam 3:31
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    31כ(Kaf) For the Lord will not reject us forever.

  • Jer 33:24
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    24“You have surely noticed what these people are saying, haven’t you? They are saying,‘The LORD has rejected the two families of Israel and Judah that he chose.’ So they have little regard that my people will ever again be a nation.

  • 1 Kgs 19:10
    66%

    10He answered,“I have been absolutely loyal to the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, even though the Israelites have abandoned the covenant they made with you, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life.”

  • Rom 9:14
    65%

    14What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!

  • Hos 8:2
    65%

    2Israel cries out to me,“My God, we acknowledge you!”

  • Jer 51:5
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    5“For Israel and Judah will not be forsaken by their God, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. For the land of Babylonia is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

  • Rom 10:21
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    21But about Israel he says,“All day long I held out my hands to this disobedient and stubborn people!”

  • Ps 94:14
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    14Certainly the LORD does not forsake his people; he does not abandon the nation that belongs to him.

  • 1 Thess 1:4
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    4We know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you,

  • Hos 1:10
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    10The Restoration of Israel(2:1) However, in the future the number of the people of Israel will be like the sand of the sea which can be neither measured nor numbered. Although it was said to them,“You are not my people,” it will be said to them,“You are children of the living God!”

  • Rom 9:11
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    11even before they were born or had done anything good or bad(so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling)–

  • 1 Kgs 18:36
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    36When it was time for the evening offering, Elijah the prophet approached the altar and prayed:“O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, prove today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command.

  • Deut 9:26-27
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    65%

    26I prayed to him: O, Sovereign LORD, do not destroy your people, your valued property that you have powerfully redeemed, whom you brought out of Egypt by your strength.

    27Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; ignore the stubbornness, wickedness, and sin of these people.

  • Isa 14:1
    65%

    1The LORD will certainly have compassion on Jacob; he will again choose Israel as his special people and restore them to their land. Resident foreigners will join them and unite with the family of Jacob.

  • Rom 3:29
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    29Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes, of the Gentiles too!

  • Jer 2:11
    65%

    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!