Romans 11:7
What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,
What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
What then? That which Israel seeketh for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened:
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- What then?
- Romans 3:9; Romans 6:15; 1 Corinthians 10:19; Philippians 1:18
- Israel
- Romans 9:31, 32; Romans 10:3; Proverbs 1:28; Luke 13:24; Hebrews 12:17
- but the election
- That is, the elect, the abstract being used for the concrete. So the Jews or the circumcised people, are called Israel, or the circumcision.
- Romans 11:5; Romans 8:28–30; Romans 9:23; Ephesians 1:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:13, 14; 1 Peter 1:2
- and the rest
- Isaiah 6:10; Isaiah 44:18; Matthew 13:14, 15; John 12:40; 2 Corinthians 3:14; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:10–12
- blinded
- or, hardened.
- Romans 9:18