Romans 11:25

For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brothers, of this secret—that you may not be wise in your own conceits—that hardness in part to Israel has happened until the fullness of the nations may come in;

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In The King James Version

For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

In Context

24for if you, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, were cut out, and contrary to nature, were grafted into a good olive tree, how much rather will they, who [are] according to nature, be grafted into their own olive tree?

26and so all Israel will be saved, according as it has been written: “There will come forth out of Zion He who is delivering, and He will turn away impiety from Jacob,

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Cross References

Psalms 72:8And He rules from sea to sea, || And from the river to the ends of the earth.

Psalms 107:43Who [is] wise, and observes these? They understand the kind acts of YHWH!

Proverbs 3:5Trust to YHWH with all your heart, || And do not lean to your own understanding.

Proverbs 26:16Wiser [is] the slothful in his own eyes, || Than seven [men] returning a reason.

Isaiah 5:21Woe [to] the wise in their own eyes, || And—before their own faces—intelligent!

Isaiah 66:18“And I—their works and their thoughts, || I come to gather all the nations and tongues, || And they have come and seen My glory.

Matthew Henry on Romans 11:2-33

The State of the Jews; The State of the Gentiles; The Gentiles Warned; The Future Conversion of the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my… Read the whole commentary →

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