Romans 11:29
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
KJV
ἀμεταμέλητα γὰρ τὰ χαρίσματα καὶ ἡ κλῆσις τοῦ θεοῦ.
Greek NT
Sine pœnitentia enim sunt dona et vocatio Dei.
Vulgate
For the gifts and the calling of God are not repented of.
ASV
For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
7 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κλῆσις
klesis
noun · 11×
χάρισμα
charisma
noun · 17×
ἀμεταμέλητος
ametameletos
adjective · 2×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Historic Christian voices
10 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§839"Those who have not yet received the Gospel are related to the People of God in various ways."325 The relationship of the Church with the Jewish People. When she delves into her own mystery, the Church, the People of God in the New Covenant, discovers her link with the Jewish People,326 "the first to hear the Word of God."327 The Jewish faith, unlike other non-Christian religio…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210219.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
1. That which he exhorts others to do, saying, Philippians 4:6 Let your requests with thanksgiving be made known unto God, the same also he used to do himself: teaching us to begin always from these words, and before all things to give thanks unto God. For nothing is so acceptable to God as that men should be thankful, both for themselves and for others: wherefore also he prefa…
Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. Calvin shows that God's rejection of Israel is neither total nor final. A remnant according to the election of grace has been preserved. The Gentiles, like wild olive branches, have been grafted in — but they must not boast against the natural branches. If God spared not the natural branches, he may not spare the grafted ones either. T…
As the sacred synod searches into the mystery of the Church, it remembers the bond that spiritually ties the people of the New Covenant to Abraham's stock. The Church cannot forget that she received the revelation of the Old Testament through the people with whom God in His inexpressible mercy concluded the Ancient Covenant. Nor can she forget that she draws sustenance from the…
Canons of Dort · 2 passages
Just as God is most wise, unchangeable, all-knowing, and almighty, so the election made by him can neither be suspended nor altered, revoked, or annulled; neither can the chosen be cast off nor their number reduced.
So it is not by their own merits or strength but by God's undeserved mercy that they neither forfeit faith and grace totally nor remain in their downfalls to the end and are lost. With respect to themselves this not only easily could happen, but also undoubtedly would happen; but with respect to God it cannot possibly happen, since his plan cannot be changed, his promise cannot…
Cross-references
- 1Chr 17:27 — Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.
- 1Sam 12:22 — For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
- Acts 2:39 — For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.
- Gen 27:33 — And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be bless
- Heb 6:17 — Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
- Heb 7:21 — (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
- Hos 13:14 — I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
- Hos 13:14 — I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
- Isa 46:4 — And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
- Isa 54:10 — For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
- Jas 1:17 — Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
- Mal 3:6 — For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
- Num 22:12 — And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.
- Num 23:19 — God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
- Num 23:19 — God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
- Num 23:27 — And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
- Ps 18:50 — Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
- Ps 89:34 — My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
- Rom 3:3 — For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
- Rom 8:28 — And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.