Romans 10:21 Cross References

Romans 10:21

21: But regarding Israel, God said, "All day long I opened my arms to them, but they kept disobeying me and arguing with me."

"I opened my arms to my own people all day long, but they have rebelled. They follow their own evil paths and thoughts.
All day long they insult me to my face by worshiping idols in their sacred gardens. They burn incense on the rooftops of their homes.
At night they go out among the graves and secret places to worship evil spirits. They also eat pork and other forbidden foods.
Yet they say to each other, `Don't come too close or you will defile me! I am holier than you!' They are a stench in my nostrils, an acrid smell that never goes away.

I have sent you prophet after prophet to tell you to turn from your wicked ways and to stop worshiping other gods, so that you might live in peace here in the land I gave to you and your ancestors. But you would not listen to me or obey.

"Now listen to this story. A certain landowner planted a vineyard, built a wall around it, dug a pit for pressing out the grape juice, and built a lookout tower. Then he leased the vineyard to tenant farmers and moved to another country.
At the time of the grape harvest he sent his servants to collect his share of the crop.
But the farmers grabbed his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another.
So the landowner sent a larger group of his servants to collect for him, but the results were the same.
"Finally, the owner sent his son, thinking, 'Surely they will respect my son.'

For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are. Even now, while I am still with you, you have rebelled against the LORD. How much more rebellious will you be after my death!

"Again and again I sent my servants, the prophets, to plead with them, `Don't do these horrible things that I hate so much.'
But my people would not listen or turn back from their wicked ways. They kept right on burning incense to these gods.
And so my fury boiled over and fell like fire on the towns of Judah and into the streets of Jerusalem, and now they are a desolate ruin.

Many guests were invited, and when the banquet was ready, he sent his servants to notify everyone that it was time to come. But they all refused!
So he sent other servants to tell them, 'The feast has been prepared, and choice meats have been cooked. Everything is ready. Hurry!'
But the guests he had invited ignored them and went about their business, one to his farm, another to his store.
Others seized his messengers and treated them shamefully, even killing some of them.
"Then the king became furious. He sent out his army to destroy the murderers and burn their city.

"I called you so often, but you didn't come. I reached out to you, but you paid no attention.

"But despite all this, they were disobedient and rebelled against you. They threw away your law, they killed the prophets who encouraged them to return to you, and they committed terrible blasphemies.

And the Scriptures also say, "He is the stone that makes people stumble, the rock that will make them fall." They stumble because they do not listen to God's word or obey it, and so they meet the fate that has been planned for them.

"Again and again, the LORD has sent you his prophets, but you have not listened or even tried to hear.

"You stubborn people! You are heathen at heart and deaf to the truth. Must you forever resist the Holy Spirit? But your ancestors did, and so do you!
Name one prophet your ancestors didn't persecute! They even killed the ones who predicted the coming of the Righteous One--the Messiah whom you betrayed and murdered.

I will send you prophets and wise men and teachers of religious law. You will kill some by crucifixion and whip others in your synagogues, chasing them from city to city.
As a result, you will become guilty of murdering all the godly people from righteous Abel to Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered in the Temple between the altar and the sanctuary.
I assure you, all the accumulated judgment of the centuries will break upon the heads of this very generation.
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God's messengers! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her wings, but you wouldn't let me.

Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and declared, "It was necessary that this Good News from God be given first to you Jews. But since you have rejected it and judged yourselves unworthy of eternal life--well, we will offer it to Gentiles.
For this is as the Lord commanded us when he said, 'I have made you a light to the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the farthest corners of the earth.'"

With my authority, take this message of repentance to all the nations, beginning in Jerusalem: 'There is forgiveness of sins for all who turn to me.'

"Do as they say," the LORD replied, "for it is me they are rejecting, not you. They don't want me to be their king any longer.
Ever since I brought them from Egypt they have continually forsaken me and followed other gods. And now they are giving you the same treatment.

"The LORD said to me, `I have been watching this people, and they are extremely stubborn.

"For the Kingdom of Heaven is like the owner of an estate who went out early one morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
He agreed to pay the normal daily wage and sent them out to work.
"At nine o'clock in the morning he was passing through the marketplace and saw some people standing around doing nothing.
So he hired them, telling them he would pay them whatever was right at the end of the day.
At noon and again around three o'clock he did the same thing.

by trying to keep us from preaching the Good News to the Gentiles, for fear some might be saved. By doing this, they continue to pile up their sins. But the anger of God has caught up with them at last.

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