23 Bible Verses about Israel Hardened

And when many days were fulfilled the Jews made a plot to kill Saul;

But the mass of the city's people was divided; part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.

Now Paul, wishing that this man should accompany him on his journey, took him and circumcised him because of the local Jews, who all knew that his father was a Greek.

But the Jews, moved with jealousy, called to their aid certain ill-favored and idle fellows, formed a mob, and began to set the town in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

As soon as the Jews in Thessalonica learned that the word of God was preached by Paul in Berea also, they came there, and stirred up and troubled the crowds.

Just as he was about to set sail for Syria, the Jews laid a plot against him, and he determined to return through Macedonia.

"serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and amid trials that befell me through the plots of the Jews.

"Men of Israel, help! This is the man who goes everywhere preaching to everybody against the people, and the Law, and this place. And he has actually brought Gentiles even into the temple, and has desecrated the holy place."

"King Agrippa," said Festus, "and all men who are present with us, you see here the man about whom the entire body of the Jews at Jerusalem, and here also, sent to me, crying out that he ought not to live any longer.

"a promise which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. It is concerning this hope, King Agrippa, that I am accused by the Jews.

Five times at the hands of the Jews, I have received one short of forty lashes.

And the rest of the Jewish Christians also dissimulated with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.

"I am standing before Caesar's tribunal," answered Paul, "where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you very well know.

But that the descendants of Israel, who were in pursuit of a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law?

For I would not, my brothers, have you ignorant of this hidden truth, for fear that you become wise in your own conceits. that a hardening in part has befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles is come in.

"I tell you that for this reason the kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation that does produce the fruit of it.

"but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness; there will be the wailing and the gnashing of teeth."

For I was on the point of praying to be accursed from Christ on behalf of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.

"but rather be on your way to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

In reply he said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

Now if their stumbling enriches the world, and their loss enriches the Gentiles, how much more must their fulness do!

God did not cast off his people whom he foreknew. For do you not know what is said in the Scripture about Elijah? how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,

What then? that which Israel has been seeking for, that he has not obtained; but the chosen have obtained it, and the rest have been hardened.