Romans 11:11 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹¹ I ask then, has their stumbling led to their absolute ruin? By no means. Through their false step salvation has gone to the heathen, so as to make the Israelites jealous.

⁴² As they were going out, the people begged to have all this said to them again on the following Sabbath,

⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out plainly, and said, "God's message had to be told to you first, but since you thrust it off and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the heathen. ⁴⁷ For these are the orders the Lord has given us: " 'I have made you a light for the heathen, To be the means of salvation to the very ends of the earth!' " ⁴⁸ When the heathen heard this they were delighted, and praised God's message, and all who were destined for eternal life believed,

⁶ But as they contradicted and abused him, he shook his clothes in protest, and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am not to blame for it! After this I will go to the heathen."

¹⁸ and saw him saying to me, 'Make haste and leave Jerusalem at once, for they will not accept your evidence about me.' ¹⁹ And I said, 'Lord, they know that I used to go through one synagogue after another, and to imprison and flog those who believed in you, ²⁰ and when the blood of your witness Stephen was being shed, I stood by and approved it, and took charge of the clothes of the men who killed him.' ²¹ But he said to me, 'Go! I will send you far away to the heathen.' "

²⁴ Some of them were convinced by what he said, but others would not believe. ²⁵ As they could not agree among themselves, they started to leave, when Paul added one last word. "The holy Spirit put it finely," he said, "when it said to your forefathers through the prophet Isaiah, ²⁶ " 'Go to this Nation and say to them, "You will listen, and listen, and never understand, And you will look, and look, and never see! ²⁷ For this nation's mind has grown dull, And they hear faintly with their ears, And they have shut their eyes, So as never to see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their minds, and turn back, And let me cure them!" ' ²⁸ "Understand then that this message of God's salvation has been sent to the heathen. They will listen to it!"

¹⁹ But I ask again, did Israel fail to understand? Why, to begin with, Moses said, "I will make you jealous of what is no nation at all, I will exasperate you at a senseless nation."

¹ I ask then, has God repudiated his people? By no means. Why, I am an Israelite myself, I am descended from Abraham, and I belong to the tribe of Benjamin.

¹² But if their false step has so enriched the world, and their defeat has so enriched the heathen, how much more good the addition of their full number will do!

¹⁴ in the hope of making my countrymen jealous, and thus saving some of them.

³¹ so they are now disobedient in order that they in turn may experience the same mercy as you.