Romans 11:28

Modern English Version

As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sake, but as regarding the election, they are beloved for the sake of the patriarchs.

Cross References

Genesis 26:4

I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of the heavens and will give your descendants all these lands. By your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

Genesis 28:14

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

Jeremiah 31:3

The Lord has appeared to him from afar, saying: Indeed, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.

Micah 7:20

You will give faithfulness to Jacob and benevolence to Abraham, which You swore to our fathers from the days of old.

Matthew 21:43

“Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing its fruits.

Luke 1:54

He has helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy,

Acts 14:2

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and embittered their minds against the brothers.

Acts 18:6

But when they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be upon your heads. I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

Romans 11:11

I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid! But through their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.

Romans 11:30

For just as you once were disobedient to God, but have now received mercy through their disobedience,

Romans 11:7

What then? Israel has not obtained what it was seeking. But the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

Romans 5:10

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, how much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by His life!

Romans 9:5

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

Deuteronomy 10:15

The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, even you above all people, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 4:31

(for the Lord your God is a merciful God), He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.

Deuteronomy 8:18

But you must remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the ability to get wealth, so that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you enter to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.