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Romans 9:6
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Now it is not as though the word of God has failed, because not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel which are of Israel:
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,
But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel;
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,
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;
But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel;
But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel;
It is not as though God's word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
It cannot be said that God broke his promise. After all, not all of the people of Israel are the true people of God.
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;
Not however as though the word of God had failed; for not all [are] Israel which [are] of Israel;
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.
Notwithstanding it can not bee that the worde of God should take none effect: for all they are not Israel, which are of Israel:
It is not as though the word of God had actually failed. For all those who belong to Israel are not Israelites:
I am not saying that the promise of God has failed; for not all the people of Israel are the people of God.
But it is not as if the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,
Not, however, that God's Word has failed. For not all those of Israel are Israel,
But it is not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:
But it is not as if the word of God was without effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel:
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.
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]
FOR the word of Aloha hath not really fallen : [fn] for not all who are of Israel are Israel;
Not, however, that the word of God hath actually failed. For all are not Israel, who are of Israel.
And it can not be, that the worde of God shoulde take none effect. For they are not all Israelites, which are of Israel:
But it is not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.
Not as if the word of God had fallen to the ground; for all are not Israel, who are of Israel.
Not however that God's word has failed; for all who have sprung from Israel do not count as Israel,
But [it is] not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:
Not as though the word of God hath taken no effect. For they [are] not all Israel, who are [descendants] from Israel?
It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,
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,
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!
I am not saying that God did not keep His promises. Not all the Jews are people God chose for Himself.
It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all Israelites truly belong to Israel,
It is not, however, as though the word of God had failed; for, not all they who are of Israel, the same are Israel.
Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For all are not Israelites that are of Israel.
But it is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,
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:
And it is not possible that the word of God hath failed; for not all who [are] of Israel are these Israel;
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:
However, the divine promise cannot but have its effect. for they are not the whole of Israel, who are descended from Israel:
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"?
But just because all the Jews won't be saved doesn't mean God has crawfished on his promise to his kids.
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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
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to dai thou castist me out fro the face of the erthe; and Y schal be hid fro thi face, and Y schal be vnstable of dwellyng and fleynge aboute in erthe; therfore ech man that schal fynde me schal slee me.
This is the book of generacioun of Adam, in the dai wher ynne God made man of nouyt. God made man to the ymage and licnesse of God;
and youre drede and tremblyng be on alle vnresonable beestis of erthe, and on alle briddis of heuene, with alle thingis that ben moued in erthe; alle fischis of the see ben youun to youre hond.
And al thing which is moued and lyueth schal be to you in to mete; Y have youe to you alle thingis as greene wortis,
for Y schal seke the blood of youre lyues of the hoond of alle vnresonable beestis and of the hoond of man, of the hoond of man and of hys brother Y schal seke the lijf of man.
Who euere schedith out mannus blood, his blood schal be sched; for man is maad to the ymage of God.
And God seide, This is the signe of boond of pees, which Y yyue bitwixe me and you, and to ech lyuynge soule which is with you, in to euerlastynge generaciouns.
and whanne Y schal hile heuene with cloudis, my bowe schal appere in the cloudis,
And Noe seide, Blessid be the Lord God of Sem,
and Chanaan be the seruaunt to Sem; God alarge Jafeth, and dwelle in the tabernaclis of Sem, and Chanaan be seruaunt of hym.
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.
