ROM 11:29 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: light-green:nominative/subject, pink:genitive/possessor.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULT For the gracious gifts and the calling of God are without regret.

UST This is true because God does not revoke the things he graciously gives. He also does not revoke the people whom he summons to be his people.

BSB For God’s gifts and [His] call [are] irrevocable.

MSB (Same as BSB above)

BLB For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

AICNT For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

OEB For God never regrets his gifts or his call.

WEBBE For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

LSV for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable;

FBV God's gifts and his calling can't be withdrawn.

TCNT For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.

T4T He still loves them, because he never changed his mind about the privileges/blessings he gave to them and about his choosing them to be his people.

LEB For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

BBE Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed.

Moff For God never goes back upon his gifts and call.

Wymth For God does not repent of His free gifts nor of His call;

ASV For the gifts and the calling of God are not repented of.

DRA For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.

YLT for unrepented of [are] the gifts and the calling of God;

Drby For the gifts and the calling of [fn]God [are] not subject to repentance.

11.29 Elohim

RV For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.

SLT For the favors and calling of God not causing repentance.

Wbstr For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

KJB-1769 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

KJB-1611 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
(Same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps For the gyftes and callyng of God, are without repentaunce.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from marking of added words (and possibly capitalisation and punctuation))

Gnva For the giftes and calling of God are without repentance.
(For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. )

Cvdl For verely the giftes & callynge of God are soch, that it can not repente him of them.
(For verily/truly the gifts and calling of God are such, that it cannot repent him of them.)

TNT For verely the gyftes and callynge of god are soche that it cannot repent him of them:
(For verily/truly the gifts and calling of god are such that it cannot repent him of them: )

Wycl And the yiftis and the cleping of God ben with outen forthenkyng.
(And the gifts and the cleping of God been without forthnking.)

Luth Gottes Gaben und Berufung mögen ihn nicht gereuen.
(God’s gifts and vocation/calling may him/it not regretted.)

ClVg Sine pœnitentia enim sunt dona et vocatio Dei.
(Let repentance because are gifts and calling of_God. )

UGNT ἀμεταμέλητα γὰρ τὰ χαρίσματα καὶ ἡ κλῆσις τοῦ Θεοῦ.
(ametamelaʸta gar ta ⱪarismata kai haʸ klaʸsis tou Theou.)

SBL-GNT ἀμεταμέλητα γὰρ τὰ χαρίσματα καὶ ἡ κλῆσις τοῦ θεοῦ.
(ametamelaʸta gar ta ⱪarismata kai haʸ klaʸsis tou theou.)

RP-GNT Ἀμεταμέλητα γὰρ τὰ χαρίσματα καὶ ἡ κλῆσις τοῦ θεοῦ.
(Ametamelaʸta gar ta ⱪarismata kai haʸ klaʸsis tou theou.)

TC-GNT Ἀμεταμέλητα γὰρ τὰ χαρίσματα καὶ ἡ κλῆσις τοῦ Θεοῦ.
(Ametamelaʸta gar ta ⱪarismata kai haʸ klaʸsis tou Theou. )

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs (from our SR-GNT base).

SOTN SIL Open Translator’s Notes:

Section 11:25–32: God will be merciful to Jews and Gentiles

In this section, Paul warned the Gentile believers in Rome to not think of themselves as better than the Jews who have not believed in Jesus. God has caused many Jews to not believe until the time the full number of Gentiles will believe. Then all Israel will be saved.

Many Jews have rejected the gospel of Jesus, but God still loves them because he chose them long ago. God will not change his mind about his promises to them and his calling of them.

Both Jew and Gentile are alike in that both have been disobedient and God will be merciful to both.

Here are other possible headings for this section:

God still has a plan for Israel (JBP)

All Israel Will Be Saved (NIV)

11:29

For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.

For God does not regret the gifts he gave to them and his calling of them.
For God never wishes he had not chosen them or had not given the good things that he gave them.

For: Here this word introduces the basis for what Paul said in 11:28c–d. Israel is still the chosen people of God, even if they are undergoing a partial hardening, because God will never change his mind about calling them to be his chosen people nor about his promises to them.

gifts: Here this word refers to the good things that God has done for the Israelites. 9:4–5 lists some of those gifts: “the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises. Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ.”

call: Like God called Paul to be his apostle (1:1), God called the Israelites to be his people.

irrevocable: The Greek word here refers to not regretting doing something.BDAG, L&N, Kittel, and L&S. God does not wish that he had not called the Israelites to be his chosen people. Here are other ways to translate this word:

no change of mind (NJB)

God does not regret

This word is probably emphasized in the Greek clause. For example:

indeed, unregretted

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

γὰρ

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: ἀμεταμέλητα Γάρ τά χαρίσματα καί ἡ κλῆσις τοῦ Θεοῦ)

For indicates that what follows this word explains what came before it. Here, For indicates that what follows is the reason why what Paul said in the previous verse is true. Use a natural way in your language for indicating a reason. Alternate translation: [You can be sure this is true because]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

τὰ χαρίσματα & ἡ κλῆσις τοῦ Θεοῦ

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: ἀμεταμέλητα Γάρ τά χαρίσματα καί ἡ κλῆσις τοῦ Θεοῦ)

If your language does not use abstract nouns for the ideas of gifts and calling, you could express the same ideas in another way. Alternate translation: [what is graciously given … what has been called by God]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / possession

ἡ κλῆσις τοῦ Θεοῦ

the calling ¬the ˱of˲_God

Here, the calling of God refers to the fact that God called the Jews to be his people. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: [the fact that God called them]

Parallel ROM 11:29

Section 11:25–32: God will be merciful to Jews and Gentiles

11:29