Romans 10:21

But concerning the people of Israel, Isaiah tells us that God said: For a long time I have held out my arms to people who disobeyed and rebelled against me, in order to invite them to return to me.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

In Context

20Remember also what God said very boldly to Isaiah: Non-Jews who did not ◄try to know/seek► me will surely find me [DOU]! I will surely reveal what I am like to those who did not ask for me!

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 9:13Then Yahweh said to me, ‘I have been watching these people, and I see that they are very stubborn.

1 Samuel 8:7Yahweh replied, “Do what they have requested you to do. But ◄ do not think/the truth is not► that you are the one whom they are really rejecting. I have been their king, and I am the one they are really rejecting.

Proverbs 1:24But when I called to you, you refused to listen. I beckoned to you to come to me, but you ignored me.

Jeremiah 25:4Many times Yahweh has sent to you the prophets who served him, but you have not listened to them or paid any attention to what they said.

Jeremiah 44:4Many times I sent my prophets who served me, to say to them, “Do not do those abominable things that I hate!”

Matthew 21:33“Listen to another parable that I will tell you. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He built a fence around it. He dug a hole in the ground inside the fence. He placed in the hole a stone tank to collect the juice that would be pressed out of the grapes. He also built a tower inside that fence that someone would sit in to guard that vineyard. He arranged for some men to care for the vineyard and to give him some of the grapes in return. Then he went away to another country.

Matthew Henry on Romans 10:13-21

Importance of Preaching the Gospel; Perverseness of Israel. ( a. d. 58.) 12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How… Read the whole commentary →

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