Romans 11:28

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.

Are enemies

But

Romans 11:7

Isaiah 41:8

Are beloved

General references

Micah 7:20

Luke 1:55

Bible References

Are enemies

I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

Therefore I say unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spoke against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds embittered against the brethren.

And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his clothes, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

But

What then? Israel has not obtained that which it seeks for; but the election has obtained it, and the rest were blinded

But you, Israel, are my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the descendant of Abraham my friend.

Are beloved

And I will make your descendants to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto your descendants all these countries; and in your descendants shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

And your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

(For the LORD your God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore unto them.

The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people:

But you shall remember the LORD your God: for it is he that gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore unto your fathers, as it is this day.

Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their descendants after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

The LORD has appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you.

You will show truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, which you have sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.

He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;

General references

You will show truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, which you have sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.

As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his descendants forever.