23 Bible Verses about Israel Hardened

After some time had passed, the Jews made a plot to kill him,

But the people of the town were divided, some siding with the Jews and some with the apostles.

Paul wished to take this man on with him, and so on account of the Jews in that district he had him circumcised, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

This offended the Jews and they gathered some unprincipled loafers, formed a mob and started a riot in the town. They attacked Jason's house, to find them and bring them out among the people.

But when the Jews at Thessalonica found out that God's message had been delivered at Berea by Paul, they came there too, to excite and stir up the populace.

where he stayed for three months. Just as he was going to sail for Syria, the Jews made a plot against him, and he made up his mind to return by way of Macedonia.

and how I served the Lord most humbly and with tears, through all the trials that I encountered because of the plots of the Jews.

shouting, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everybody everywhere against our people and the Law and this place, and besides he has actually brought Greeks into the Temple and desecrated this sacred place."

Then Festus said, "King Agrippa and all who are present, you see here the man about whom the whole Jewish people have applied to me both at Jerusalem and here, clamoring that he ought not to live any longer.

the promise in the hope of seeing which fulfilled our twelve tribes serve God zealously night and day. It is about this hope, your Majesty, that I am accused by some Jews.

Five times I have been given one less than forty lashes, by the Jews.

The other Jewish Christians followed his example in concealing their real views, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their pose.

But Paul said, "I am standing before the emperor's court, where I ought to be tried. I have done the Jews no wrong, as you can easily see.

while Israel, straining after a law that should bring uprightness, did not come up to it.

For to keep you from thinking too well of yourselves, brothers, I do not want you to miss this secret, that only partial insensibility has come upon Israel, to last until all the heathen have come in,

"That, I tell you, is why the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and given to a people that will produce its proper fruit.

while the heirs to the kingdom will be driven into the darkness outside, there to weep and grind their teeth!"

for I could wish myself accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my natural kindred.

but proceed instead to the lost sheep of Israel's house.

But he answered, "I am sent only to the lost sheep of Israel's house."

But if their false step has so enriched the world, and their defeat has so enriched the heathen, how much more good the addition of their full number will do!

God has not repudiated his people, which he had marked out from the first. Do you not know what the Scripture says in speaking of Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel?

What follows? Israel failed to get what it sought, but those whom God selected got it.