Romans 11:23

11:23 And even they – if they do not continue in their unbelief – will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

Romans 1:20

1:20 For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.

Romans 1:24

1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

Romans 1:26

1:26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

Romans 1:28

1:28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.

Romans 11:11

11:11 I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall, did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous.


tn Grk “they”; the referent (people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

sn Possibly an allusion to Ps 81:12.

tn The genitive articular infinitive τοῦ ἀτιμάζεσθαι (tou atimazesqai, “to dishonor”) has been taken as (1) an infinitive of purpose; (2) an infinitive of result; or (3) an epexegetical (i.e., explanatory) infinitive, expanding the previous clause.

tn Grk “among them.”

tn Grk “for their females exchanged the natural function for that which is contrary to nature.” The term χρῆσις (crhsi") has the force of “sexual relations” here (L&N 23.65).

tn Grk “and just as they did not approve to have God in knowledge.”

tn Grk “the things that are improper.”

tn Grk “that they might fall.”

tn Grk “them”; the referent (Israel, cf. 11:7) has been specified in the translation for clarity.