Romans 11:15
for if the rejecting of them be the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving them again be but life from the dead?
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
16Now if the first-fruits be holy, so is the whole heap: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Cross References
Luke 15:24for this my son was dead, and is alive again, and was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.
Romans 5:10For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son; much more being reconciled shall we be saved by his life.
Romans 11:11Say I then, Have they stumbled, that they should fall irrecoverably? God forbid! but this I say, that by their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles to excite them to emulation.
Ephesians 1:10that in the dispensation of the fulness of times, He might reduce all things, both in heaven and on earth, under one head in Christ:
Revelation 11:11But after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them: and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon those that saw 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 →