Romans 9:28

for the Lord will fulfill his word completely and without delay upon the earth."

New Heart English Bible

In The King James Version

For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

In Context

27Isaiah cries out concerning Israel,"If the number of the sons of Israel are as the sand of the sea,it is the remnant who will be saved;

29As Isaiah has said before,"Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed,we would have become like Sodom,and would have been made like Gomorrah."

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Cross References

Psalms 9:8He will judge the world in righteousness.He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.VAV

Isaiah 5:16but the Lord of hosts is exalted in justice,and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

Isaiah 28:22Now therefore do not be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of hosts, on the whole earth.

Daniel 9:26After the sixty-two weeks an anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and his end shall come with a flood, and until the end there shall be war; desolations are decreed.

Acts 17:31because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead."

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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