Romans 11:1
Therefore, I say: Has God driven away his people? Let it not be so! For I, too, am an Israelite of the offspring of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
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1 Samuel 12:22And the Lord will not abandon his people, because of his great name. For the Lord has sworn to make you his people.
Psalms 77:7So then, may they put their hope in God, and may they not forget the works of God, and may they seek his commandments.
Jeremiah 33:24“Have you not seen what this people has spoken? They say: ‘The two families which the Lord had chosen have been rejected.’ And so they have despised my people, as if they were no longer a nation in their sight.
Amos 9:8Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinning kingdom, and I will wipe it from the face of the earth. Though truly, when destroying, I will not wipe away the house of Jacob, says the Lord.
Acts 26:4And certainly, all the Jews know about my life from my youth, which had its beginning among my own people in Jerusalem.
Matthew Henry on Romans 11:1
The apostle, having reconciled that great truth of the rejection of the Jews with the promise made unto the fathers, is, in this chapter, further labouring to mollify the harshness of it, and to reconcile it to the divine goodness in general. It might be said, "Hath God then cast away his people?" The apostles therefore sets himself, in this chapter, to make a reply to this objection, and that two ways:—I. He shows at large what the mercy is that is mixed with this wrath, ver. 1-32 . II. He infers thence the… Read the whole commentary →