Romans 11:1

World English Bible (2000)

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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  • 1 Sam 12:22 : 22 For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself.
  • 2 Cor 11:22 : 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.
  • Phil 3:5 : 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
  • Jer 33:24-26 : 24 Don't consider what this people has spoken, saying, The two families which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. 25 Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; 26 then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.
  • Hos 9:17 : 17 My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.
  • Amos 9:8-9 : 8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," says Yahweh. 9 "For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.
  • Acts 22:3 : 3 "I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are this day.
  • Acts 26:4 : 4 "Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;
  • Rom 3:4 : 4 May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment."
  • Rom 9:3 : 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,
  • 2 Kgs 23:27 : 27 Yahweh said, "I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, 'My name shall be there.'"
  • Ps 77:7 : 7 "Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?
  • Ps 89:31-37 : 31 if they break my statutes, and don't keep my commandments; 32 then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. 33 But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail. 34 I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered. 35 Once have I sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David. 36 His seed will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me. 37 It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky." Selah.
  • Ps 94:14 : 14 For Yahweh won't reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
  • Jer 31:36-37 : 36 If these ordinances depart from before me, says Yahweh, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever. 37 Thus says Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says Yahweh.

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  • 2 God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

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    3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

    4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

    5 of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

    6 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.

    7 Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."

    8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

  • 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.

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    11 I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

    12 Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?

    13 For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

    14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

    15 For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?

  • 1 Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.

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    19 You will say then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."

    20 True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear;

    21 for if God didn't spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

    22 See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

    23 They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

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

    25 For I don't desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

    26 and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

    27 This is my covenant to them, when I will take away their sins."

    28 Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.

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

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    24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

    25 As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."

    26 "It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"

    27 Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;

  • 14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

  • 7 What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn't obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

  • 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

  • 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

  • 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;

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    4 But how does God answer him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

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

  • 15 "We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

  • 17 The God of this people chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it.

  • 19 But I ask, didn't Israel know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation void of understanding I will make you angry."

  • 17 If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?"

  • 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'

  • 9 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name."

  • 18 even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"

  • 21 Saul answered, "Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? And my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then do you speak to me like this?"

  • 31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

  • 1 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

  • 16 For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

  • 21 But as to Israel he says, "All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."

  • 26 Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

  • 10 who in time past were no people, but now are God's people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.