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The whole scheme looks topsy-turvy, until we see the amazing wisdom of God!

30-32 Just as in the past you were disobedient to God but have found that mercy which might have been theirs but for their disobedience, so they, who at the present moment are disobedient, will eventually share the mercy which has been extended to you. God has all men penned together in the prison of disobedience, that he may have mercy upon them all.

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30 Just as you who were at one time disobedient(A) to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, 31 so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now[a] receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you. 32 For God has bound everyone over to disobedience(B) so that he may have mercy on them all.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 11:31 Some manuscripts do not have now.