Romans 11:1
Israel’s Rejection not Complete nor Final
11:1 So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
Genesis 29:14
29:14 Then Laban said to him, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.”
So Jacob
stayed with him for a month.
Esther 8:6
8:6 For how can I watch the calamity that will befall my people, and how can I watch the destruction of my relatives?”
Acts 7:23-26
7:23 But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind
to visit his fellow countrymen
the Israelites.
7:24 When
he saw one of them being hurt unfairly,
Moses
came to his defense
and avenged the person who was mistreated by striking down the Egyptian.
7:25 He thought his own people
would understand that God was delivering them
through him,
but they did not understand.
7:26 The next day Moses
saw two men
fighting, and tried to make peace between
them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why are you hurting one another?’
Acts 13:26
13:26 Brothers,
descendants
of Abraham’s family,
and those Gentiles among you who fear God,
the message
of this salvation has been sent to us.