Romans 11:32 BSB — MannaFest

Romans 11:32

For God has consigned everyone to disobedience so that He may have mercy on everyone.

BSB

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ASV

For God hath shut up all unto disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.

KJV

For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

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Commentary

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Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

For God hath concluded them all in unbelief - Συνεκλεισε γαρ ὁ Θεος, God hath shut or locked them all up under unbelief. This refers to the guilty state of both Jews and Gentiles. They had all broken God’s law - the Jews, the written law; the Gentiles, the law written in their hearts; see Rom 1:19, Rom 1:20; Rom 2:14, Rom 2:

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Afterwards he permitted them to fall through unbelief, and took in the believing gentiles. And he did even this to provoke the Jews to jealousy, and so bring them also in the end to faith. This was truly a mystery in the divine conduct, which the apostle adores with such holy astonishment.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

And what he here says is that God's purpose was to shut each of these divisions of men to the experience first of an humbled, condemned state, without Christ, and then to the experience of His mercy in Christ.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
συνέκλεισεν	sunekleisen	Has bound up	G4788 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
θεὸς	theos	God	G2316 →
τοὺς	tous	<the>	G3588 →
πάντας	pantas	all	G3956 →
εἰς	eis	in	G1519 →
ἀπείθειαν	apeitheian	disobedience	G543 →
ἵνα	ina	that	G2443 →
τοὺς	tous	<the>	G3588 →
πάντας	pantas	all	G3956 →
ἐλεήσῃ.¶	eleēsē	He may show mercy to.	G1653 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

G1653eleeseHe may show mercy to.32×

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 12:32
And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw everyone to Myself.”
leads to
- John 3:14
  Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
- John 8:28
  So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father…
- 1 Peter 2:24
  He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
- 1 John 2:2
  He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
Through
Romans 3:22
And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
leads to
- Romans 10:12
  For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,
- Galatians 3:28
  There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Galatians 2:16
  know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in…
- Romans 8:1
  Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

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06About Romans

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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About Romans