Romans 11:32

For God has given all alike over to disobedience, that to all alike he may show mercy.

Twentieth Century New Testament

In The King James Version

For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

In Context

31so, too, they have now become disobedient in your day of mercy, in order that they also in their turn may now find mercy.

33Oh! the unfathomable wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments, how untraceable his ways! Yes —

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Cross References

John 1:7he came as a witness — to bear witness to the Light that through him all men might believe.

Romans 3:9What follows, then? Are we Jews in any way superior to others? Not at all. Our indictment against both Jews and Greeks was that all alike were in subjection to sin.

Galatians 3:22But the words of Scripture represent the whole world as being in bondage to sin, so that the promised blessing, dependent, as it is, upon faith in Jesus Christ, may be given to those who have faith in him.

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 →

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