Romans 11:31

"For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,"

Key Reflection

This verse highlights how God's mercy extends even to those who were previously rebellious against Him, illustrating His gracious nature that offers salvation to all, regardless of past disobedience. Through the disobedience of others, one can receive mercy and be included in God’s grace.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 31. Even so have these, etc. That is, the Jews. 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.

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