Romans 11:32

For God has locked up all in the prison of unbelief, that upon all alike He may have mercy.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

31so now they also have been disobedient at a time when you are receiving mercy; so that to them too there may now be mercy.

33Oh, how inexhaustible are God's resources and God's wisdom and God's knowledge! How impossible it is to search into His decrees or trace His footsteps!

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Cross References

John 1:7He came as a witness, in order that he might give testimony concerning the Light--so that all might believe through him.

Romans 3:9What then? Are we Jews more highly estimated than they? Not in the least; for we have already charged all Jews and Gentiles alike with being in thraldom to sin.

Galatians 3:22But Scripture has shown that all mankind are the prisoners of sin, in order that the promised blessing, which depends on faith in Jesus Christ, may be given to those who believe.

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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