Romans 11:28
As touching the joyful-message, indeed, they are enemies for your sake, but, as touching the election, beloved for their father’s sake;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
27And, this, for them, is the covenant from me, as soon as I take away their sins.
29For, not to be regretted, are the gifts and the calling of God:—
Cross References
Genesis 28:14And thy seed shall become as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt break forth westward and eastward, and northward and southward,—And all the families of the ground shall be blessed in thee and in thy seed.
Deuteronomy 4:31For, a GOD of compassion, is Yahweh thy God, he will not forsake thee neither will he destroy thee,—nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
Deuteronomy 8:18But thou shalt remember Yahweh thy God, that it was, he, who had been giving thee strength to get wealth,—that so he might establish his covenant which he sware to thy fathers (as at this day).
Deuteronomy 10:15Only unto thy fathers, Yahweh became attached so as to love them,—therefore made he choice of their seed after them—of you—out of all the peoples, (as at this day).
Isaiah 41:8But, thou, Israel, my Servant, Jacob whom I have chosen,—The seed of Abraham my loving one;
Micah 7:20Thou wilt grant—the faithfulness to Jacob, the lovingkindness to Abraham,—which thou didst swear to our fathers, from the days of ancient time.
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 →