Romans 11:15
For if the casting away of them was the reconciling of the world, what will their reception be, but life from the dead?
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
14if perchance I may provoke my flesh, and save some of them.
16But if the first fruit was holy, the lump is also: if the root was holy, the branches are also.
Cross References
Luke 15:24because this my son was dead, and is alive again; was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
Romans 5:10For if being enemies we are reconciled to God through the death of his Son; how much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved through his life:
Romans 11:11Then I say; Whether did they stumble that they may fall? it could not be so: but by their fall, salvation came to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.
Ephesians 1:10in the economy of the fulness of the times, to rehead all things in Christ, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth; in him,
Revelation 11:11And after three and a half days the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell on those seeing them.
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 →