Romans 11:15
New International Version
For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

New Living Translation
For since their rejection meant that God offered salvation to the rest of the world, their acceptance will be even more wonderful. It will be life for those who were dead!

English Standard Version
For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

Berean Standard Bible
For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

Berean Literal Bible
For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be if not life out from the dead?

King James Bible
For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

New King James Version
For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

New American Standard Bible
For if their rejection proves to be the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

NASB 1995
For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

NASB 1977
For if their rejection be the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

Legacy Standard Bible
For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

Amplified Bible
For if their [present] rejection [of salvation] is for the reconciliation of the world [to God], what will their acceptance [of salvation] be but [nothing less than] life from the dead?

Christian Standard Bible
For if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

American Standard Version
For if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For if their rejection was the reconciliation for the world, how much greater therefore is their return, if not life from the dead?

Contemporary English Version
When Israel rejected God, the rest of the people in the world were able to turn to him. So when God makes friends with Israel, it will be like bringing the dead back to life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For if the loss of them be the reconciliation of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

English Revised Version
For if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If Israel's rejection means that the world has been brought back to God, what does Israel's acceptance mean? It means that Israel has come back to life.

Good News Translation
For when they were rejected, all other people were changed from God's enemies into his friends. What will it be, then, when they are accepted? It will be life for the dead!

International Standard Version
For if their rejection results in reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance bring but life from the dead?

Literal Standard Version
for if the casting away of them [is] a reconciliation of the world, what the reception—if not life out of the dead?

Majority Standard Bible
For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

New American Bible
For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

NET Bible
For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

New Revised Standard Version
For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead!

New Heart English Bible
For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?

Webster's Bible Translation
For if the rejection of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

Weymouth New Testament
For if their having been cast aside has carried with it the reconciliation of the world, what will their being accepted again be but Life out of death?

World English Bible
For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?

Young's Literal Translation
for if the casting away of them is a reconciliation of the world, what the reception -- if not life out of the dead?

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Context
The Ingrafting of the Gentiles
14in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them. 15For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? 16If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.…

Cross References
Luke 15:24
For this son of mine was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!' So they began to celebrate.

Luke 15:32
But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.'"

Romans 5:11
Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

Romans 14:1
Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on his opinions.

Romans 14:3
The one who eats everything must not belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted him.


Treasury of Scripture

For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

the casting.

Romans 11:1,2,11,12
I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin…

the reconciling.

Romans 5:10
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

2 Corinthians 5:18-20
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; …

but.

Ezekiel 37:1-14
The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, …

Revelation 11:11
And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.

Revelation 20:4-6
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years…

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Romans 11
1. God has not cast off all Israel.
7. Some were elected, though the rest were hardened.
16. There is hope of their conversion.
18. The Gentiles may not exult over them;
26. for there is a promise of their salvation.
33. God's judgments are unsearchable.














(15) Reconciling of the world.--The gospel could not be preached to the Gentiles until it had first been offered to and rejected by the Jews. Hence the casting away of the Jews might be said to have caused the reconciling of the rest of the world.

Life from the dead.--The reconversion of the Jews will be a signal to inaugurate that reign of eternal life which will be ushered in by the resurrection from the dead.

Verse 15. - For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? The vivid force of this concluding expression is weakened by attempts to define what is exactly meant by it; as, for instance (as some interpret), that the general resurrection will come when the fulness of the Jews as well as the Gentiles has come in. It is best to leave the grandeur of the conception to be felt rather than explained.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
For
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

if
εἰ (ei)
Conjunction
Strong's 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

their
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

rejection
ἀποβολὴ (apobolē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 580: A casting away, rejection, a loss. From apoballo; rejection; figuratively, loss.

[is the] reconciliation
καταλλαγὴ (katallagē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2643: Reconciliation, restoration to favor. From katallasso; exchange, i.e. Restoration to favor.

of [the] world,
κόσμου (kosmou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2889: Probably from the base of komizo; orderly arrangement, i.e. Decoration; by implication, the world (morally).

what
τίς (tis)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5101: Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what.

[will their]
(hē)
Article - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

acceptance [be]
πρόσλημψις (proslēmpsis)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4356: A receiving, a taking to one's self, acceptance. From proslambano; admission.

but
εἰ (ei)
Conjunction
Strong's 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

life
ζωὴ (zōē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2222: Life, both of physical (present) and of spiritual (particularly future) existence. From zao; life.

from
ἐκ (ek)
Preposition
Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

[the] dead?
νεκρῶν (nekrōn)
Adjective - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 3498: (a) adj: dead, lifeless, subject to death, mortal, (b) noun: a dead body, a corpse. From an apparently primary nekus; dead.


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