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Romans 11:11

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Do I mean that the people of Israel fell, never to get up again? Certainly not! Their failure made it possible for the Gentiles to be saved, and this will make the people of Israel jealous.

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I, the LORD God, don't like to see wicked people die. I enjoy seeing them turn from their sins and live.

I, the LORD God, don't want to see that happen to anyone. So stop sinning and live!

Tell them that as surely as I am the living LORD God, I don't like to see wicked people die. I enjoy seeing them turn from their sins and live. So if the Israelites want to live, they must stop sinning and turn back to me.

I'll tell you what. He will come and kill those tenants and let someone else have his vineyard.” When the people heard this, they said, “This must never happen!”

As Paul and Barnabas were leaving the meeting, the people begged them to say more about these same things on the next Sabbath.

Finally, they turned against him and insulted him. So he shook the dust from his clothes and told them, “Whatever happens to you will be your own fault! I am not to blame. From now on I am going to preach to the Gentiles.”

Did the people of Israel understand or not? Moses answered this question when he told that the Lord had said, “I will make Israel jealous of people who are a nation of nobodies. I will make them angry with people who don't understand a thing.”

Am I saying that God has turned his back on his people? Certainly not! I am one of the people of Israel, and I myself am a descendant of Abraham from the tribe of Benjamin.

But if the rest of the world's people were helped so much by Israel's sin and loss, they will be helped even more by their full return.

I hope in this way to make some of my own people jealous enough to be saved.

And because of the mercy shown to you, they will also be shown mercy.




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