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 ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be. But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

"Therefore I tell you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation bringing forth its fruit.

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and reviled him.

But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.

When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads. I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles."

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and did not please God, and are contrary to all men;

But

What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he did not obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

"But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,

Are beloved

I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,

Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.

"'If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

for the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.

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

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

Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in 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 establish the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.

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

The LORD appeared of old to me, saying, 'Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.

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

He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy,

General references

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

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