Romans 11:1

I say then, did God reject his people? May it never be. For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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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.

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2God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel?

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Cross References

1 Samuel 12:22For the sake of his great name, Yahweh will not reject his people, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.

Psalms 77:7Will the Lord reject me forever? 1 Will he never again show me favor? 1

Psalms 94:14For Yahweh will not forsake his people 1 or abandon his inheritance. 1

Jeremiah 33:24“Have you not considered what this people has declared when they said, 'The two families that Yahweh chose, now he has rejected them'? In this way they despise my people, saying that they are no longer a nation in their sight.

Amos 9:8Look, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, 1 and I will destroy it from the face of the earth, 1 except that I will not totally destroy the house of Jacob 1 —this is Yahweh's declaration. 1

Acts 26:4Truly, all the Jews know how I lived from my youth in my own nation and at 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 →

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