Romans 9:29

Also, we can understand from what the prophet Isaiah said that God would not save anyone if he did not show mercy: If the Lord, who controls everything in heaven, had not mercifully allowed some of our descendants to survive, we would have become like the people of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, who were [SIM, DOU] completely destroyed.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.

In Context

28because the Lord will punish completely and speedily the people who live on this earth, as he said that he would do.

30We must conclude this: [RHQ] Although non-Jews did not search out a way by which God would erase the record of their sins, they actually found that way because they trusted in what Christ did for them.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:24Then Yahweh caused fire and burning sulfur to fall down on Sodom and Gomorrah like rain.

Isaiah 1:9If the Commander of the armies of angels had not allowed a few of us his people to ◄survive/remain alive►, we would have all been destroyed, like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed.

Isaiah 13:19Babylon has been a very beautiful [MTY] city; all the people of Babylonia have been very proud of Babylon, their capital city; but God will destroy Babylon, like [SIM] he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 50:40I will destroy Babylon like I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and the nearby towns; no one will ever live there again [DOU].

Lamentations 4:6The people of Sodom were struck with a disaster very suddenly, and there was no one to rescue them; but my people have been punished more severely than the people of Sodom were punished.

Zephaniah 2:6The land of Philistia near the sea will become a pasture, a place for shepherds and their sheep pens.

Matthew Henry on Romans 9:26-30

Conversion of the Gentiles. ( a. d. 58.) 25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. 26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God. 27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: 28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in… Read the whole commentary →

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