Romans 11:31
Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
Romans 11:31 in other translations
| BSB | so they too have now disobeyed, in order that they too may now receive mercy through the mercy shown to you. |
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| WEB | even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy. |
| ASV | even so have these also now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they also may now obtain mercy. |
| YLT | so also these now did not believe, that in your kindness they also may find kindness; |
| DARBY | so these also have now not believed in your mercy, in order that they also may be objects of mercy. |
| BBE | So in the same way these have gone against the orders of God, so that by the mercy given to you they may now get mercy. |
| Webster | Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. |
What does Romans 11:31 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Romans 11:30-31
30-31. For as ye in times past have not believed--or, "obeyed" God--that is, yielded not to God "the obedience of faith," while strangers to Christ. yet now have obtained mercy through--by occasion of their unbelief--(See on Ro 11:11; Ro 11:15; Ro 11:28).
Barnes' Notes
That through your mercy, etc. The immediate effect of the unbelief of the Jews was to confer salvation on the Gentiles or to open the way for the preaching of the gospel to them. But its remote effect would be to secure the preaching of the gospel again to the Jews. Through the mercy, that is, the compassion or deep feeling of the converted Gentiles; through the deep and tender pity which they would feel for the blinded and degraded Jews, the gospel should be again carried to them, and they should be recalled to the long-lost favour of God. Each party should thus cause salvation to come to the other--the Jews to the Gentiles by their unbelief; but the Gentiles, in their turn, to the Jews by their belief. We may here learn,
(1.) that the Jews are to be converted by the instrumentality of the Gentiles. It is not to be by miracle, but by the regular and common way in which God blesses men.
(2.) That this is to be done by the mercy or compassion of the Gentiles; by their taking pity on the lost and 'wretched condition of the Jewish people.
(3.) It is to be when the abundance of the Gentiles--that is, when great numbers of the Gentiles--shall be called in. It may be asked here, whether the time is not approaching for the Gentiles to make efforts to being the Jews to the knowledge of the Messiah. Hitherto those efforts have been unsuccessful; but it will not always be so; the time is coming when the promises of God in regard to them shall be fulfilled. Christians shall be moved with deep compassion for the degraded and forsaken Jews, and they shall be called into the kingdom of God, and made efficient agents in extending the gospel through the whole world. May the time soon come when they shall feel as they should for the rejected and forsaken children of Abraham, and when their labours for their conversion shall be attended with success.
(1) "believed" or, "obeyed"
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Romans 11:22-32
Of all judgments, spiritual judgments are the sorest; of these the apostle is here speaking. The restoration of the Jews is, in the course of things, far less improbable than the call of the Gentiles to be the children of Abraham; and though others now possess these privileges, it will not hinder their being admitted again. By rejecting the gospel, and by their indignation at its being preached to the Gentiles, the…
Romans 11:31 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Romans 11:31
- Romans 11:25
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
- Romans 11:15
For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
- Romans 10:16
But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
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Context
- Romans 11:30
For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
- Romans 11:31
Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
- Romans 11:32
For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
Romans 11:31 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Así también éstos ahora no han creído, para que, por la misericordia para con vosotros, ellos también alcancen misericordia. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | de même ceux-ci aussi ont été maintenant désobéissants à votre miséricorde, afin qu’eux aussi deviennent des objets de miséricorde. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | also haben auch jetzt diese an eure Begnadigung nicht geglaubt, auf daß auch sie unter die Begnadigung kommen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | ita et isti nunc non crediderunt in vestram misericordiam: ut et ipsi misericordiam consequantur. |