For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
God does not withdraw, revoke, or take back His gifts and calling, which stand firm, irrevocable, without change and without repentance. His choice and favor toward Israel stand firm and will not be withdrawn, and His purpose toward the Jews remains in force. His gifts continue steadily and are not withdrawn from those who receive and obey the conditions, being given for people to use according to His will rather than according to inherited or fanciful ideas, natural impulse, or inclination.
The verse belongs to Paul's celebration and praise of the depth of the riches of God's wisdom and knowledge and His unsearchable judgments and ways beyond finding out and past finding out. This passage is given to the church to study in order to understand and know God's will and to increase in faith and righteousness and grow up in Christ the living Head. It shows the religious duty of every church member to present the body a living sacrifice and be transformed rather than conformed to the world, each working with his own God-given capability and measure of faith, all blending in a complete whole.
Concerning Israel, though the Jews as a nation rejected the gospel and as concerning the gospel are enemies for the sake of the Gentiles and were broken off through unbelief, as touching election they remain beloved for the sake of the patriarchs and fathers by election. Their blindness has happened only in part until the fullness and fulness of the Gentiles comes in. If they do not remain and abide still in unbelief but turn from unbelief, receive mercy, and accept Christ, God is able to graft the natural branches back into their own olive tree, which is the true stock, Christ Jesus.
So all Israel shall be saved when the Deliverer comes out of Zion and Sion to turn ungodliness away from Jacob and to take away sins under the covenant to take away their sins. Their receiving will be as life from the dead, and their fullness will bring far greater riches and the riches of the world. The gathering will therefore include not Gentiles only but Jews, for many of the seed of Israel everywhere will yet be gathered in, converted, and come to the light when the light of present truth is brought to them, with salvation going forth through them as a burning lamp and as a lamp that burneth because the Lord will work and do wonderful things in righteousness. Among the Jews God has mighty men who will be converted, and many who come to the light will proclaim the truth and the immutability of the law of God with wonderful power.
Gentile believers, grafted in as wild branches who stand by faith, must not be highminded, boast against the branches, or despise the Jews, but must fear and continue in goodness lest they also be cut off. The chapter therefore teaches a work for the Jews that must not be ignored but must be carried out with special wisdom, the wisdom of God, and in all wisdom and righteousness, clearing the King's highway and giving the Jews every opportunity to come to the light. Jews who accept Christ are often cut off from their own people and need a place of refuge where they can be sheltered and learn how to work for their own people, and churches should patiently support this work with sympathy and offerings and without hindering influence.
God does not withdraw, revoke, or take back His gifts and calling, which stand firm, irrevocable, without change and without repentance. His choice and favor toward Israel stand firm and will not be withdrawn, and His purpose toward the Jews remains in force. His gifts continue steadily and are not withdrawn from those who receive and obey the conditions, being given for people to use according to His will rather than according to inherited or fanciful ideas, natural impulse, or inclination.
The verse belongs to Paul's celebration and praise of the depth of the riches of God's wisdom and knowledge and His unsearchable judgments and ways beyond finding out and past finding out. This passage is given to the church to study in order to understand and know God's will and to increase in faith and righteousness and grow up in Christ the living Head. It shows the religious duty of every church member to present the body a living sacrifice and be transformed rather than conformed to the world, each working with his own God-given capability and measure of faith, all blending in a complete whole.
Concerning Israel, though the Jews as a nation rejected the gospel and as concerning the gospel are enemies for the sake of the Gentiles and were broken off through unbelief, as touching election they remain beloved for the sake of the patriarchs and fathers by election. Their blindness has happened only in part until the fullness and fulness of the Gentiles comes in. If they do not remain and abide still in unbelief but turn from unbelief, receive mercy, and accept Christ, God is able to graft the natural branches back into their own olive tree, which is the true stock, Christ Jesus.
So all Israel shall be saved when the Deliverer comes out of Zion and Sion to turn ungodliness away from Jacob and to take away sins under the covenant to take away their sins. Their receiving will be as life from the dead, and their fullness will bring far greater riches and the riches of the world. The gathering will therefore include not Gentiles only but Jews, for many of the seed of Israel everywhere will yet be gathered in, converted, and come to the light when the light of present truth is brought to them, with salvation going forth through them as a burning lamp and as a lamp that burneth because the Lord will work and do wonderful things in righteousness. Among the Jews God has mighty men who will be converted, and many who come to the light will proclaim the truth and the immutability of the law of God with wonderful power.
Gentile believers, grafted in as wild branches who stand by faith, must not be highminded, boast against the branches, or despise the Jews, but must fear and continue in goodness lest they also be cut off. The chapter therefore teaches a work for the Jews that must not be ignored but must be carried out with special wisdom, the wisdom of God, and in all wisdom and righteousness, clearing the King's highway and giving the Jews every opportunity to come to the light. Jews who accept Christ are often cut off from their own people and need a place of refuge where they can be sheltered and learn how to work for their own people, and churches should patiently support this work with sympathy and offerings and without hindering influence.