Romans 11:28

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Romans 11:26–30 · Berean Standard Bible

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

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

28 Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs.

29 For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.

30 Just as you who formerly disobeyed God have now received mercy through their disobedience,

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Romans 11:11

I ask then, did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Certainly not! However, because of their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.

Romans 11:30

Just as you who formerly disobeyed God have now received mercy through their disobedience,

Matthew 21:43

Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.

Acts 13:45

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.

Acts 13:46

Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.

Acts 14:2

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

Acts 18:6

But when they opposed and insulted him, he shook out his garments and told them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,

1 Thessalonians 2:16

hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.

Romans 11:7

What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,

Isaiah 41:8

“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—

Isaiah 41:9

I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said, ‘You are My servant.’ I have chosen and not rejected you.

Genesis 26:4

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.

Leviticus 26:40

But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—

Leviticus 26:41

and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,

Leviticus 26:42

then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

Deuteronomy 4:31

For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.

Deuteronomy 7:7

The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

Deuteronomy 7:8

But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 8:18

But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 10:15

Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.

Psalms 105:8

He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—

Psalms 105:9

the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.

Psalms 105:10

He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

Psalms 105:11

“I will give you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”

Jeremiah 31:3

The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.

Micah 7:20

You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.

Luke 1:54

He has helped His servant Israel, remembering to be merciful,

Luke 1:68

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed His people.

Luke 1:69

He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,

Luke 1:70

as He spoke through His holy prophets, those of ages past,

Luke 1:71

salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us,

Luke 1:72

to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,

Luke 1:73

the oath He swore to our father Abraham, to grant us

Luke 1:74

deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear,

Luke 1:75

in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our lives.