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New Century Version

Romans 9:6

It is not that God failed to keep his promise to them. But only some of the people of Israel are truly God's people,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Hypocrisy;   Word of God;   Scofield Reference Index - Abraham;   Israel;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Church of Israel;   Jews, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Israel;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Church;   Election;   Israel;   Mission;   Nation;   Remnant;   Servant of the lord;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Abraham;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Calvinists;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Israel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Israel, Spiritual;   Justification;   People of God;   Romans, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Election;   Evil;   Paul the Apostle;   Predestination;   Romans, Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Election;   Interpretation;   Israel;   Israel, Israelite;   Jacob ;   Nunc Dimittis ;   Old Testament;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - 14 Word Words;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Esau;   Plagues of egypt;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Israel kingdom of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Heredity;   Nought;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Now it is not as though the word of God has failed, because not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
King James Version (1611)
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel which are of Israel:
King James Version
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
English Standard Version
But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,
New American Standard Bible
But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel;
Amplified Bible
However, it is not as though God's word has failed [coming to nothing]. For not all who are descended from Israel (Jacob) are [the true] Israel;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel;
Legacy Standard Bible
But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel;
Berean Standard Bible
It is not as though God's word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
Contemporary English Version
It cannot be said that God broke his promise. After all, not all of the people of Israel are the true people of God.
Complete Jewish Bible
But the present condition of Isra'el does not mean that the Word of God has failed. For not everyone from Isra'el is truly part of Isra'el;
Darby Translation
Not however as though the word of God had failed; for not all [are] Israel which [are] of Israel;
Easy-to-Read Version
I don't mean that God failed to keep his promise to the Jewish people. But only some of the people of Israel are really God's people.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Notwithstanding it can not bee that the worde of God should take none effect: for all they are not Israel, which are of Israel:
George Lamsa Translation
It is not as though the word of God had actually failed. For all those who belong to Israel are not Israelites:
Good News Translation
I am not saying that the promise of God has failed; for not all the people of Israel are the people of God.
Lexham English Bible
But it is not as if the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,
Literal Translation
Not, however, that God's Word has failed. For not all those of Israel are Israel,
American Standard Version
But it is not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:
Bible in Basic English
But it is not as if the word of God was without effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel:
Hebrew Names Version
But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Yisra'el, that are of Yisra'el.
International Standard Version
Now it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all Israelites truly belong to Israel,Numbers 23:19; John 8:39; Romans 2:28-29; 3:8; Galatians 6:16;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
FOR the word of Aloha hath not really fallen : [fn] for not all who are of Israel are Israel;
Murdock Translation
Not, however, that the word of God hath actually failed. For all are not Israel, who are of Israel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And it can not be, that the worde of God shoulde take none effect. For they are not all Israelites, which are of Israel:
English Revised Version
But it is not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
World English Bible
But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Not as if the word of God had fallen to the ground; for all are not Israel, who are of Israel.
Weymouth's New Testament
Not however that God's word has failed; for all who have sprung from Israel do not count as Israel,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Amen. But not that the word of God hath falle doun. For not alle that ben of Israel, these ben Israelitis.
Update Bible Version
But [it is] not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:
Webster's Bible Translation
Not as though the word of God hath taken no effect. For they [are] not all Israel, who are [descendants] from Israel?
New English Translation
It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,
New King James Version
Genesis 25:19-23">[xr] But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel,
New Living Translation
Well then, has God failed to fulfill his promise to Israel? No, for not all who are born into the nation of Israel are truly members of God's people!
New Life Bible
I am not saying that God did not keep His promises. Not all the Jews are people God chose for Himself.
New Revised Standard
It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all Israelites truly belong to Israel,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
It is not, however, as though the word of God had failed; for, not all they who are of Israel, the same are Israel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For all are not Israelites that are of Israel.
Revised Standard Version
But it is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
I speake not these thinges as though the wordes of god had take none effecte. For they are not all Israelites which came of Israel:
Young's Literal Translation
And it is not possible that the word of God hath failed; for not all who [are] of Israel are these Israel;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But I speake not these thinges, as though the worde of God were of none effecte: for they are not all Israelites, which are of Israel:
Mace New Testament (1729)
However, the divine promise cannot but have its effect. for they are not the whole of Israel, who are descended from Israel:
THE MESSAGE
Don't suppose for a moment, though, that God's Word has malfunctioned in some way or other. The problem goes back a long way. From the outset, not all Israelites of the flesh were Israelites of the spirit. It wasn't Abraham's sperm that gave identity here, but God's promise. Remember how it was put: "Your family will be defined by Isaac"? That means that Israelite identity was never racially determined by sexual transmission, but it was God-determined by promise. Remember that promise, "When I come back next year at this time, Sarah will have a son"?
Simplified Cowboy Version
But just because all the Jews won't be saved doesn't mean God has crawfished on his promise to his kids.

Contextual Overview

6 It is not that God failed to keep his promise to them. But only some of the people of Israel are truly God's people, 7 and only some of Abraham's descendants are true children of Abraham. But God said to Abraham: "The descendants I promised you will be from Isaac." 8 This means that not all of Abraham's descendants are God's true children. Abraham's true children are those who become God's children because of the promise God made to Abraham. 9 God's promise to Abraham was this: "At the right time I will return, and Sarah will have a son." 10 And that is not all. Rebekah's sons had the same father, our father Isaac. 11But before the two boys were born, God told Rebekah, "The older will serve the younger." This was before the boys had done anything good or bad. God said this so that the one chosen would be chosen because of God's own plan. He was chosen because he was the one God wanted to call, not because of anything he did. 13 As the Scripture says, "I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as though: Romans 3:3, Romans 11:1, Romans 11:2, Numbers 23:19, Isaiah 55:11, Matthew 24:35, John 10:35, 2 Timothy 2:13, Hebrews 6:17, Hebrews 6:18

they are not: Romans 2:28, Romans 2:29, Romans 4:12-16, John 1:47, Galatians 6:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:19 - Sarah Genesis 17:21 - my Psalms 59:5 - the heathen Psalms 73:1 - to such Psalms 77:8 - doth Isaiah 45:4 - Jacob Isaiah 45:25 - the seed Isaiah 48:1 - which are Ezekiel 39:28 - and have Micah 2:7 - named Luke 1:33 - the Romans 4:11 - father Romans 9:4 - are Israelites 1 John 2:19 - they might Revelation 2:9 - which

Cross-References

Genesis 4:14
Today you have forced me to stop working the ground, and now I must hide from you. I must wander around on the earth, and anyone who meets me can kill me."
Genesis 5:1
This is the family history of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them in his own likeness.
Genesis 9:2
Every animal on earth, every bird in the sky, every animal that crawls on the ground, and every fish in the sea will respect and fear you. I have given them to you.
Genesis 9:3
"Everything that moves, everything that is alive, is yours for food. Earlier I gave you the green plants, but now I give you everything for food.
Genesis 9:5
I will demand blood for life. I will demand the life of any animal that kills a person, and I will demand the life of anyone who takes another person's life.
Genesis 9:6
"Whoever kills a human being will be killed by a human being, because God made humans in his own image.
Genesis 9:12
And God said, "This is the sign of the agreement between me and you and every living creature that is with you.
Genesis 9:14
When I bring clouds over the earth and a rainbow appears in them,
Genesis 9:26
Noah also said, "May the Lord , the God of Shem, be praised! May Canaan be Shem's slave.
Genesis 9:27
May God give more land to Japheth. May Japheth live in Shem's tents, and may Canaan be their slave."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect,.... Or "it is not possible indeed that the word of God should fall"; see 1 Samuel 3:10; This the apostle says, partly to relieve his own mind pressed with sorrow, and partly to obviate an objection some might make, or prevent any mistake any might be ready to go into; as though from what he suggested that what God had said concerning the people of the Jews, was made void and without effect: for whether by the "word of God" are meant, the Scriptures in general, the prophecies of the Old Testament, these were now about to have their accomplishment, in the rejection of the Jews, and in the conversion of the Gentiles; or whether by it is designed the Gospel, this, as preached both by Christ and his apostles, had had its effect upon God's chosen ones among that people; it was become the power of God unto salvation, to the Jew first: or rather by it may be intended, God's word of promise to Abraham, that he would be a God to him, and to his seed after him; and that he and they should be heir of the world, of this and of that which is to come; particularly the heavenly inheritance, which he gave to him by promise; this was not made void, or had taken none effect: for this was made only to Abraham and his spiritual seed; and therefore though his carnal seed believed not, and for their unbelief should be cut off, this did not make the faith, or faithfulness of God of none effect:

for they are not all Israel, which are of Israel; that is, they which are the descendants of the patriarch Jacob, whose name was Israel; or who are of the Israelitish nation, of the stock of Israel, belonging to that people; they are not all את ישראל, "the Israel", by way of emphasis, as in Psalms 25:22, or the "Israel of God", Galatians 6:16, the Israel whom Jehovah the Father has chosen for a peculiar people; which Christ has redeemed from all their iniquities; which the Spirit of God calls with an holy calling, by special grace, to special privileges; the seed of Israel who are justified in Christ, whose iniquities are so pardoned and done away, that when they are sought for they shall not be found, and who are saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: or in other words, though they are "Israel after the flesh", 1 Corinthians 10:18, yet not after the Spirit; though they are by nation Israelites, they are not Israelites "indeed", as Nathanael was, John 1:47; they are Jews outwardly, not inwardly; they have not all principles of grace, uprightness, and sincerity in them: now to these spiritual Israelites, or seed of Abraham, were the word of God, the promises of God concerning spiritual and eternal things made, and upon these they had their effect; and therefore it could not be said that the word of God had taken none effect; though the whole body of Israel after the flesh were cut off and rejected. Some copies, and the Vulgate Latin version, read, "who are Israelites"; and the Ethiopic version, "they are not all Israel who came out of Egypt".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Not as though ... - Not as though the promise of God had entirely failed. Though I grieve thus Romans 9:2-3, though I am deeply apprehensive for the nation, yet I do not affirm that all the nation is to be destroyed. The promise of God will not entirely fail.

Not all Israel - Not all the descendants of Jacob have the true spirit of Israelites, or are Jews in the scriptural sense of the term; see the note at Romans 2:28-29.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 9:6. Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. — A Jew might have objected, as in Romans 3:3: "Is not God bound by his faithfulness to continue the Jews as his peculiar Church and people, notwithstanding the infidelity of the major part of them? If they are brought to a level with the Gentiles, will it not follow that God hath failed in the performance of his promise to Abraham? Genesis 17:7, Genesis 17:8 : I will establish my covenant between me and thee for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and thy seed after thee." To which it may be answered: This awful dispensation of God towards the Jews is not inconsistent with the veracity of the Divine promise; for even the whole body of natural born Jews are not the whole of the Israelites comprehended in the promise. Abraham is the father of many nations; and his seed is not only that which is of the law, but that also which is of the faith of Abraham, Romans 4:16; Romans 4:17. The Gentiles were included in the Abrahamic covenant as well as the Jews; and therefore the Jews have no exclusive right to the blessings of God's kingdom.


 
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