Romans 11:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁸ As regards the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but as regards election they are beloved for the sake of their ancestors,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ From the point of view of the Gospel (good news), they [the Jews, at present] are enemies [of God], which is for your advantage and benefit. But from the point of view of God's choice (of election, of divine selection), they are still the beloved (dear to Him) for the sake of their forefathers.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ As touching the gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.

Common English Bible

²⁸ According to the gospel, they are enemies for your sake, but according to God’s choice, they are loved for the sake of their ancestors.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ Certainly, according to the Gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But according to the election, they are most beloved for the sake of the fathers.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ As concerning the gospel, indeed, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are most dear for the sake of the fathers.

Romans 11:28 Cross References

Genesis 26:4

I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth shall gain blessing for themselves through your offspring,

Genesis 28:14

and your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your offspring.

Jeremiah 31:3

the Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

Micah 7:20

You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our ancestors from the days of old.

Matthew 21:43

“Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces its fruits.

Luke 1:54

He has come to the aid of his child Israel, in remembrance of his mercy,

Acts 14:2

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

Acts 18:6

When they opposed and reviled him, in protest he shook the dust from his clothes and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the gentiles.”

Romans 11:11

So I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall? By no means! But through their stumbling salvation has come to the gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.

Romans 11:30

Just as you were once disobedient to God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience,

Romans 11:7

What then? Israel has not achieved what it was pursuing. The elect have achieved it, but the rest were hardened,

Romans 5:10

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more surely, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life.

Romans 9:5

to them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, comes the Christ, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

Deuteronomy 10:15

yet the Lord set his heart in love on your ancestors alone and chose you, their descendants after them, out of all the peoples, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 4:31

Because the Lord your God is a merciful God, he will neither abandon you nor destroy you; he will not forget the covenant with your ancestors that he swore to them.

Deuteronomy 8:18

But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, so that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestors, as he is doing today.

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to occupy their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is dispossessing them before you, in order to fulfill the promise that the Lord made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.