Romans 11:30

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Summary

Romans 11:30

For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:

As ye

Obtained

1 Peter 2:10

Through

Romans 11:11

General references

Micah 7:20

Romans 11:24

Bible References

As ye

Or know ye not that, wrong-doers, shall not inherit, God's kingdom? Be not deceiving yourselves: - neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

Unto you also - being dead by your offences and sins,

Wherein, ye also, walked, at one time, when ye were living in these things;

For, even we, used, at one time, to be - thoughtless, unyielding, deceived, in servitude unto manifold covetings and pleasures, in malice and envy, leading on, detestable, hating one another.

Obtained

So, these also, have now refused to yield, by your own mercy, in order that, themselves also, should now become objects of mercy;

But, concerning them who are virgin, injunction of the Lord, have I none; yet, a judgment, do I give, as one who hath obtained mercy from the Lord to be, faithful:

Wherefore, having this ministry, even as we received mercy, we faint not;

This charge, I commit unto thee, child Timothy, According to the prophecies, running before on thee, in order that thou mightest war, with them, the noble warfare.

Who, at one time, were a No-people, but, now, are a people of God, - who had not been enjoying mercy, but, now, have received mercy.

Through

I say then - Did they stumble in order that they might fall? Far be it! But, by their fall, salvation hath come unto the nations, to the end of provoking them to jealousy.

General references

Thou wilt grant - the faithfulness to Jacob, the lovingkindness to Abraham, - which thou didst swear to our fathers, from the days of ancient time.

For, if, thou, out of the naturally wild olive was cut out, and, beyond nature, hast been engrafted into the good olive, how much rather, shall these, the natural branches be engrafted into their own olive tree?