Romans 11:30
28 Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs.
29 For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.
Just as you who formerly disobeyed God have now received mercy through their disobedience,
31 so they too have now disobeyed, in order that they too may now receive mercy through the mercy shown to you.
32 For God has consigned everyone to disobedience so that He may have mercy on everyone.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Just as you who formerly disobeyed God have now received mercy through their disobedience,
- KJV
- For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
- WEB
- For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,
- ASV
- For as ye in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,
- DARBY
- For as indeed *ye* [also] once have not believed in God, but now have been objects of mercy through the unbelief of *these*;
- BLB
- For as you⁺ once disobeyed God, but now received mercy by the disobedience of these,
- ÅB
- Slik som dere før var ulydige mot Gud, men nå har fått nåde ved disses ulydighet,
- OTB
- Akkurat som dere som en gang var ulydige mot Gud nå har mottatt barmhjertighet som et resultat av deres ulydighet,
- B1930
- For likesom I før var ulydige mot Gud, men nu har fått miskunn ved disses ulydighet,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Colossians 3:7
When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways.
Read in contextEphesians 2:1–2
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
Read in context1 Corinthians 7:25
Now about virgins, I have no command from the Lord, but I give a judgment as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.
Read in contextRomans 11:31
so they too have now disobeyed, in order that they too may now receive mercy through the mercy shown to you.
Read in contextTitus 3:3–7
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
Read in context1 Corinthians 6:9–11
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
Read in context2 Corinthians 4:1
Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this ministry, we do not lose heart.
Read in contextEphesians 2:19–21
Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
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