Romans 11:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² No, God has not rejected and disowned His people [whose destiny] He had marked out and appointed and foreknown from the beginning. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? [Ps. 94:14; I Kings 19.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel:

Common English Bible

² God hasn’t rejected his people, whom he knew in advance. Or don’t you know what the scripture says in the case of Elijah, when he pleads with God against Israel?

Catholic Public Domain Version

² God has not driven away his people, whom he foreknew. And do you not know what Scripture says in Elijah, how he calls upon God against Israel?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture saith of Elias; how he calleth on God against Israel?

Romans 11:2 Cross References

Genesis 44:15

Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that one such as I can practice divination?”

Nehemiah 9:30

Many years you were patient with them and warned them by your spirit through your prophets, yet they would not listen. Therefore you handed them over to the peoples of the lands.

Psalm 94:14

For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage;

Exodus 32:1

When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”

Jeremiah 31:37

Thus says the Lord: If the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, then I will reject all the offspring of Israel because of all they have done, says the Lord.

Numbers 16:15

Moses was very angry and said to the Lord, “Pay no attention to their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, and I have not harmed any one of them.”

Mark 12:26

And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the story about the bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

Luke 4:1

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,

John 4:11

The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?

Acts 13:48

When the gentiles heard this, they were glad and praised the word of the Lord, and as many as had been destined for eternal life became believers.

Acts 15:18

known from long ago.’

Acts 3:17

“And now, brothers and sisters, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

Acts 7:40

saying to Aaron, ‘Make gods for us who will lead the way for us; as for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’

Romans 6:16

Do you not know that, if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

Romans 9:23

and what if he has done so in order to make known the riches of his glory for the objects of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—

Romans 9:6

It is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all those descended from Israel are Israelites,

1 Corinthians 6:2

Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?

1 Corinthians 8:3

but anyone who loves God is known by him.

Philippians 1:22

If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me, yet I cannot say which I will choose.

Hebrews 1:1

Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets,

1 Peter 1:2

who have been chosen and destined by God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ and to be sprinkled with his blood: May grace and peace be yours in abundance.