Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
For if their rejection [by God] meant that [the rest of] the world could be restored to favor [with God], what would [God's] receiving the Jews back into fellowship be, except like dead people coming back to life?
New American Standard Bible
For if their rejection is the
King James Version
For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
Holman Bible
For if their rejection brings reconciliation
International Standard Version
For if their rejection results in reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance bring but life from the dead?
A Conservative Version
For if the casting away of them is reconciliation of the world, what is the acceptance except life from the dead?
American Standard Version
For if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what'shall the receiving of them be , but life from the dead?
Amplified
For if their [present] rejection [of salvation] is for the reconciliation of the world [to God], what will their acceptance [of salvation] be but [nothing less than] life from the dead?
Anderson New Testament
For, if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the reception of them be, but life from the dead?
Bible in Basic English
For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?
Common New Testament
For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
Daniel Mace New Testament
for, if by rejecting them, the world may be reconciled; what shall their restoration be, but a general resurrection?
Darby Translation
For if their casting away be the world's reconciliation, what their reception but life from among the dead?
Godbey New Testament
For if the casting away of them was the reconciling of the world, what will their reception be, but life from the dead?
Goodspeed New Testament
For if their rejection has meant the reconciling of the world, what can the acceptance of them mean but life from the dead?
John Wesley New Testament
For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
Julia Smith Translation
For if their rejection the reconciliation of the world, what the reception, but life from the dead?
King James 2000
For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
Lexham Expanded Bible
For if their rejection [means] the reconciliation of the world, what [will] their acceptance [mean] except life from the dead?
Modern King James verseion
For if their casting away is the reconciling of the world, what is the reception except life from the dead?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For if the casting away of them, be the reconciling of the world: what shall the receiving of them be, but life again from death?
Moffatt New Testament
For if their exclusion means that the world is reconciled to God, what will their admission mean? Why, it will be life from the dead!
Montgomery New Testament
For if their casting out is the reconciliation of the world to God, what will their restoration be but life out of death?
NET Bible
For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
New Heart English Bible
For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
Noyes New Testament
For if the rejection of them is the reconciliation of the world, what will the reception of them be, but life from the dead?
Sawyer New Testament
For if their falling away is the reconciling of the world, what will their recovery be but life from the dead?
The Emphasized Bible
For, if, the casting away of them, hath become the reconciling of a world, what shall, the taking of them in addition, be, but life from among the dead?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For if the rejection of them is the reconciliation of the world, what shall their recovery be, but life from the dead?
Twentieth Century New Testament
For, if their being cast aside has meant the reconciliation of the world, what will their reception mean, but Life from the dead?
Webster
For if the rejection of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
Weymouth New Testament
For if their having been cast aside has carried with it the reconciliation of the world, what will their being accepted again be but Life out of death?
Williams New Testament
For if the rejection of them has resulted in the reconciling of the world, what will the result be of the final reception of them but life from the dead?
World English Bible
For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
Worrell New Testament
For, if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
Worsley New Testament
for if the rejecting of them be the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving them again be but life from the dead?
Youngs Literal Translation
for if the casting away of them is a reconciliation of the world, what the reception -- if not life out of the dead?
Themes
Gentiles/heathen » Salvation coming to the gentiles
Israel/jews » The salvation of israel
Jews, the » Promises respecting » Blessing to the gentiles by conversion of
New » Man » Raised from spiritual death
Partaking » Who partakes with the lord
Reconciliation » Between God and man
Salvation » Salvation coming to the gentiles
References
American
Fausets
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 11:15
Prayers for Romans 11:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Gentile Branches Grafted In
14 in hope that somehow I might stir up jealousy among my fellow-Jews, and thereby save some of them. 15 For if their rejection [by God] meant that [the rest of] the world could be restored to favor [with God], what would [God's] receiving the Jews back into fellowship be, except like dead people coming back to life? 16 And if the first part of the dough is dedicated to God, the entire batch of dough will be also. And if the roots [of a tree] are dedicated to God, the branches will be also.
Cross References
Luke 15:24
For my son here was dead [spiritually], but is [now] alive again. He was lost [from me], but [now] is found.' And they began to celebrate.
Luke 15:32
But it was [only] proper that we celebrate and have a good time, for this brother of yours was dead [spiritually], but is [now] alive again; he was lost [from me] but [now] is found.'"
Romans 5:10-11
For if while we were [God's] enemies, we were restored to fellowship with Him through the death of His Son, now that we have been restored, how much more [certainly] will we be saved [from condemnation] by His life!
Romans 11:1-2
Then I ask, "Did God reject His [own] people [i.e., the Jews]?" Certainly not! For I am an Israelite too, a descendant of Abraham and a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
Romans 11:11-12
I say then, did the Jews trip [over Jesus] just so they could fall [away from God]? Certainly not! [There was another reason]: Instead, it was by means of their sin that salvation was made available to the Gentiles, so that the Jews might become jealous of them [i.e., causing them to want what the Gentiles now had].
2 Corinthians 5:18-20
All [these] things are from God, who restored us to fellowship with Himself through Christ, and gave us the ministry of restoring [other] people to [such] fellowship.
Ephesians 1:10
[He did this] to fulfill His plan at the proper time, by bringing together everything [in the universe] under Christ's headship --- things both in heaven and on earth.
Colossians 1:20-21
and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven. He made peace [with mankind] through the [sacrificial] blood of Christ's [death on the] cross.
Revelation 11:11
And after three and a half days, God breathed life into them and they stood up on their feet, and the people who saw them became terrified.
Revelation 20:4-6
Then I saw thrones, with individuals sitting on them who had been given [authority] to judge. And I [also] saw the souls of those who had been decapitated because they had testified about Jesus and [had proclaimed] the message of God. [They are] the ones who had refused to worship the beast or his statue, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And these ones lived again and ruled with Christ for a thousand years.