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But he does this, so that he can have mercy on all of them. <a href="/erv/romans/11.htm">English Revised Version</a> For God hath shut up all unto disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all. <a href="/gwt/romans/11.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> God has placed all people into the prison of their own disobedience so that he could be merciful to all people. <a href="/gnt/romans/11.htm">Good News Translation</a> For God has made all people prisoners of disobedience, so that he might show mercy to them all. <a href="/isv/romans/11.htm">International Standard Version</a> For God has locked all people in the prison of their own disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all. <a href="/msb/romans/11.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> For God has consigned everyone to disobedience so that He may have mercy on everyone. <a href="/net/romans/11.htm">NET Bible</a> For God has consigned all people to disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all. <a href="/nheb/romans/11.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> For God has bound everyone over to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all. <a href="/wbt/romans/11.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. <a href="/wey/romans/11.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> For God has locked up all in the prison of unbelief, that upon all alike He may have mercy. <a href="/web/romans/11.htm">World English Bible</a> For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/romans/11.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> for God shut up together the whole to unbelief, that to the whole He might do kindness. <a href="/blb/romans/11.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> For God has bound up all in disobedience, that He may show mercy to all. <a href="/ylt/romans/11.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> for God did shut up together the whole to unbelief, that to the whole He might do kindness. <a href="/slt/romans/11.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> For God shut them all up together in unbelief, that he might commiserate all.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/romans/11.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> For God hath concluded all in unbelief, that he may have mercy on all. <a href="/cpdv/romans/11.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> For God has enclosed everyone in unbelief, so that he may have mercy on everyone. <a href="/nabre/romans/11.htm">New American Bible</a> For God delivered all to disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all. <a href="/nrsvce/romans/11.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> For God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that he may be merciful to all.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/romans/11.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> For God has included all men in disobedience, that he might have mercy on every man. <a href="/aramaic-plain-english/romans/11.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a> For God has shut every person into disobedience so that he shall have mercy upon every person.<div class="vheading2">NT Translations</div><a href="/anderson/romans/11.htm">Anderson New Testament</a> For God has delivered them all over to unbelief, that he may have mercy on them all.<CM> <a href="/godbey/romans/11.htm">Godbey New Testament</a> For God has shut up all in unbelief, in order that he may have mercy on all. <a href="/haweis/romans/11.htm">Haweis New Testament</a> For God hath shut up all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. <a href="/mace/romans/11.htm">Mace New Testament</a> for God hath manifested to all the disobedient, that he would have mercy upon all. <a href="/wey/romans/11.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> For God has locked up all in the prison of unbelief, that upon all alike He may have mercy. <a href="/worrell/romans/11.htm">Worrell New Testament</a> For God shut up all unto disobedience, that He might have mercy on all. <a href="/worsley/romans/11.htm">Worsley New Testament</a> For God hath included them all in the charge of disobedience, that He might have mercy upon all. <a href="/parallel/romans/11-32.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KIZs4GUMn-g?start=2960" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/romans/11.htm">All Israel Shall Be Saved</a> …31so they too have now disobeyed, in order that they too may now receive mercy through the mercy shown to you. 32<a href="/greek/1063.htm" title="1063: gar (Conj) -- For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.">For</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: ho (Art-NMS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/2316.htm" title="2316: Theos (N-NMS) -- A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.">God</a> <a href="/greek/4788.htm" title="4788: synekleisen (V-AIA-3S) -- To enclose, shut in, make subject to. From sun and kleio; to shut together, i.e. Include or embrace in a common subjection to.">has consigned</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tous (Art-AMP) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/3956.htm" title="3956: pantas (Adj-AMP) -- All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.">everyone</a> <a href="/greek/1519.htm" title="1519: eis (Prep) -- A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.">to</a> <a href="/greek/543.htm" title="543: apeitheian (N-AFS) -- Willful unbelief, obstinacy, disobedience. From apeithes; disbelief.">disobedience</a> <a href="/greek/2443.htm" title="2443: hina (Conj) -- In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that.">so that</a> <a href="/greek/1653.htm" title="1653: eleēsē (V-ASA-3S) -- To pity, have mercy on. From eleos; to compassionate.">He may have mercy on</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tous (Art-AMP) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/3956.htm" title="3956: pantas (Adj-AMP) -- All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.">everyone.</a> 33O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/galatians/3-22.htm">Galatians 3:22</a> But the Scripture pronounces all things confined by sin, so that by faith in Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe. <a href="/romans/3-9.htm">Romans 3:9-12</a> What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin. / As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one. / There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. ... <a href="/romans/3-23.htm">Romans 3:23</a> for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, <a href="/galatians/3-10.htm">Galatians 3:10-14</a> All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.” / Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.” / The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.” ... <a href="/ephesians/2-3.htm">Ephesians 2:3</a> All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath. <a href="/1_timothy/2-4.htm">1 Timothy 2:4</a> who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. <a href="/titus/3-3.htm">Titus 3:3-7</a> For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. / But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, / He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. ... <a href="/1_corinthians/15-22.htm">1 Corinthians 15:22</a> For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. <a href="/2_corinthians/5-19.htm">2 Corinthians 5:19</a> that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. <a href="/john/3-17.htm">John 3:17</a> For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. <a href="/isaiah/53-6.htm">Isaiah 53:6</a> We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all. <a href="/psalms/14-2.htm">Psalm 14:2-3</a> The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God. / All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one. <a href="/psalms/53-2.htm">Psalm 53:2-3</a> God looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God. / All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one. <a href="/isaiah/64-6.htm">Isaiah 64:6</a> Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind. <a href="/jeremiah/31-33.htm">Jeremiah 31:33-34</a> “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people. / No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>For God has concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy on all.God.<a href="/romans/3-9.htm">Romans 3:9,22</a> What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; … <a href="/galatians/3-22.htm">Galatians 3:22</a> But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.concluded them all.<a href="/john/1-7.htm">John 1:7</a> The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.<a href="/john/12-32.htm">John 12:32</a> And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.<a href="/1_timothy/2-4.htm">1 Timothy 2:4-6</a> Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth… <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/romans/3-23.htm">Alike</a> <a href="/romans/7-2.htm">Bound</a> <a href="/acts/21-25.htm">Concluded</a> <a href="/isaiah/46-1.htm">Consigned</a> <a href="/romans/11-30.htm">Disobedience</a> <a href="/romans/11-31.htm">Kindness</a> <a href="/acts/5-23.htm">Locked</a> <a href="/romans/11-31.htm">Mercy</a> <a href="/romans/11-31.htm">Order</a> <a href="/romans/11-31.htm">Orders</a> <a href="/acts/26-31.htm">Prison</a> <a href="/romans/9-22.htm">Shew</a> <a href="/romans/9-22.htm">Show</a> <a href="/romans/3-27.htm">Shut</a> <a href="/romans/8-28.htm">Together</a> <a href="/romans/11-30.htm">Unbelief</a> <a href="/romans/11-16.htm">Whole</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/romans/14-5.htm">Alike</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/7-27.htm">Bound</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/5-14.htm">Concluded</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-4.htm">Consigned</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/10-6.htm">Disobedience</a> <a href="/romans/15-9.htm">Kindness</a> <a href="/judges/3-23.htm">Locked</a> <a href="/romans/12-1.htm">Mercy</a> <a href="/romans/13-2.htm">Order</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/7-10.htm">Orders</a> <a href="/romans/16-7.htm">Prison</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-26.htm">Shew</a> <a href="/romans/15-8.htm">Show</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/4-4.htm">Shut</a> <a href="/romans/15-6.htm">Together</a> <a href="/1_timothy/1-13.htm">Unbelief</a> <a href="/romans/16-23.htm">Whole</a><div class="vheading2">Romans 11</div>1. <a href="/romans/11-1.htm">God has not cast off all Israel.</a> 7. <a href="/romans/11-7.htm">Some were elected, though the rest were hardened.</a> 16. <a href="/romans/11-16.htm">There is hope of their conversion.</a> 18. <a href="/romans/11-18.htm">The Gentiles may not exult over them;</a> 26. <a href="/romans/11-26.htm">for there is a promise of their salvation.</a> 33. <a href="/romans/11-33.htm">God's judgments are unsearchable.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/romans/11.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/romans/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/romans/11.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>For God has consigned everyone to disobedience This phrase reflects the theological concept of the universality of sin, as seen in <a href="/romans/3-23.htm">Romans 3:23</a>, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." The term "consigned" suggests a deliberate act of God allowing humanity to experience the consequences of their sinful nature. This is not to imply that God causes sin, but rather that He permits human free will to operate within the bounds of a fallen world. The historical context of this passage is Paul's letter to the Romans, addressing both Jewish and Gentile believers, emphasizing that all are equally in need of salvation. Theologically, this aligns with the doctrine of original sin, which traces humanity's disobedience back to Adam and Eve in <a href="/genesis/3.htm">Genesis 3</a>.so that He may have mercy on everyone This phrase highlights God's ultimate purpose of extending mercy. The use of "everyone" indicates the inclusivity of God's plan of salvation, which is available to both Jews and Gentiles. This is consistent with the message of <a href="/romans/10-12.htm">Romans 10:12-13</a>, where Paul states, "For there is no difference between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on Him, for 'Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'" Theologically, this reflects the New Covenant established through Jesus Christ, fulfilling prophecies such as <a href="/isaiah/49-6.htm">Isaiah 49:6</a>, which speaks of salvation reaching "to the ends of the earth." The mercy of God is a central theme throughout Scripture, culminating in the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus, who embodies God's grace and redemption for all humanity.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a> The sovereign Creator who orchestrates His divine plan for humanity, demonstrating both justice and mercy. 2. <a href="/topical/a/all_men.htm">All Men</a> Refers to both Jews and Gentiles, indicating the universality of human disobedience and the need for divine mercy. 3. <a href="/topical/d/disobedience.htm">Disobedience</a> The state of rebellion against God's commands, which is a common condition of humanity. 4. <a href="/topical/m/mercy.htm">Mercy</a> The compassionate forgiveness and grace that God extends to humanity despite their disobedience. 5. <a href="/topical/p/paul_the_apostle.htm">Paul the Apostle</a> The author of the Book of Romans, who is addressing the church in Rome and explaining God's redemptive plan.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/u/understanding_human_disobedience.htm">Understanding Human Disobedience</a> Recognize that disobedience is a universal human condition, affecting every person regardless of background or status. <a href="/topical/t/the_purpose_of_god's_consignment.htm">The Purpose of God's Consignment</a> Understand that God's allowance of disobedience serves a greater purpose in His plan to extend mercy to all, highlighting His sovereignty and wisdom. <a href="/topical/t/the_universality_of_god's_mercy.htm">The Universality of God's Mercy</a> Embrace the truth that God's mercy is available to everyone, regardless of past disobedience, and is a testament to His love and grace. <a href="/topical/r/responding_to_god's_mercy.htm">Responding to God's Mercy</a> Encourage believers to respond to God's mercy with gratitude, repentance, and a commitment to live in obedience to His will. <a href="/topical/l/living_out_the_gospel.htm">Living Out the Gospel</a> Challenge believers to share the message of God's mercy with others, demonstrating the transformative power of the Gospel in their lives.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_romans_11.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Romans 11</a> <a href="/q/how_does_ezekiel_7_align_with_restoration.htm">If Ezekiel 7 portrays imminent destruction, how do we align that with later passages in the Bible that describe restoration and continued divine protection?</a> <a href="/q/what_is_the_bible's_'beginning_of_sorrows'.htm">Why did God abandon them?</a> <a href="/q/why_does_god_forbid_prayer_in_jeremiah_11_14.htm">Jeremiah 11:14: Why would God forbid prayer for the people when other passages emphasize intercession and mercy?</a> <a href="/q/what_does_it_mean_god_is_our_father.htm">What does it mean for God to be our Father?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/romans/11.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(32) Unhappy as the fate of the world might seem, first the Gentiles and then the Jews being consigned to a state of disobedience, this has really had a merciful object in the end. It will lead to a happy and complete reunion, "one flock under one shepherd."For God hath concluded them all in unbelief.--A weighty sentence embracing the whole course of human history, and summing up the divine philosophy of the whole matter. We might almost take these profound words of St. Paul as a motto for the theological side of the theory of evolution. Severe and rigorous as that doctrine may seem, its goal is perfection, the absolute harmony of all things working in accordance with the divine will. And if an objection is taken on the ground of the waste of individual life, this may be subject to we know not what beneficent rectifications in a sphere removed from that of the senses. We are able to see only a "part of God's ways," and the drift and tendency of visible things makes it not difficult for us to believe that "all things work together for good," even where the process by which they do so is not to be traced by the human eye.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/romans/11.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 32. - For God hath concluded them all in (literally, shut them all up into) unbelief (or, disobedience), that he might have mercy upon them all. Chrysostom and other Greek Fathers understood συνέκλεισε το mean only declared them to be unbelieving (or, disobedient), or convicted them of being so. Thus Chrysostom, τουτέστιν ἤλεγξεν, ἔπεδειξεν ἀπειθοῦντας. So, it may be said, must the verb he understood where St. Paul elsewhere uses it with a similar reference in <a href="/galatians/3-22.htm">Galatians 3:22</a>, ἡ γραφὴ being there the nominative to the verb. But ὁ Θεὸς being the nominative here, the more obvious meaning seems to be that the shutting up was God's doing. Some, understanding it so, would soften the expression by explaining that God allowed them to become so shut up. Τὸ συνέκλεισε νοητέον ὅτι τοὺς βουληθέντας ἀπειθεῖν εἴασεν ἀπειθεῖν (Diodorus), But we need not shrink from the plain meaning of the expression, viz. that it was God's own act. He is not thus represented as plunging men into inevitable infidelity, having given them no choice. As in the case of the hardening spoken of' above, his dealings are judicial; the state into which. they are now by him shut up has not been undeserved. And, further, his ultimate purpose is here distinctly declared to be one of mercy. The way in which the apostle regards such present judicial dealing as conducive to final mercy appears to be such as this. It is the doctrine of the whole Epistle that salvation is to be attained by man's renouncing his own imagined righteousness, and submitting himself to the righteousness of God. It conduces to this end that his ἀπειθεία should have its course and consequences; so that, conscience being at length awakened, he may long for deliverance from his hopeless state, and appreciate the offered salvation (see ch. 7.). So the Gentile world was long shut up in its self-induced, but also judicial, ἀπειθεία (<a href="/romans/1-18.htm">Romans 1:18</a>, seq.); that, "the wrath of God" being at length revealed to it from heaven, the "righteousness of God" might also be revealed to it and laid hold cf. In like manner God deals now with the Jews, who still persist in going about to establish their own righteousness instead of submitting themselves to the righteousness of God. He shuts them up for the present in their ἀπειθεία, to the end that at length, after their long judgment, and stirred up by the fulness of the Gentiles coming in, they may feel their need, and accept salvation. Τοὺς πάντας in the concluding clause seems to mean generally all mankind, Jews as well as Gentiles; and ἵνα τοὺς πάντας ἐλεήσῃ (as σωθήσεται was understood above with respect to "all Israel," as suggested by the context and the general drift of the chapter) God's embracing all races of mankind at last in the arms of his mercy by calling them into the Church. Thus the latter expression is not in itself adducible in support of the doctrine of universalism. Certainly the prospect of a universal triumph of the gospel before the end rises here before the apostle in prophetic vision; and it may be that it carries with it to his mind further glories of eternal salvation for all, casting their rays backward over all past ages, so as to inspire an unbounded hope. Such a hope, which seems elsewhere intimated (cf. <a href="/1_corinthians/15-24.htm">1 Corinthians 15:24-29</a>; <a href="/ephesians/1-9.htm">Ephesians 1:9, 10, 20-23</a>; <a href="/colossians/1-15.htm">Colossians 1:15-20</a>, would justify the glowing rhapsody of admiration and thanksgiving that follows more fully than if we supposed the apostle to contemplate still the eternal perdition of the multitudes who in all the ages have not on earth found mercy. <a href="/commentaries/romans/11-32.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div>For γὰρ (gar) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_1063.htm">Strong's 1063: </a> For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason. God Θεὸς (Theos) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2316.htm">Strong's 2316: </a> A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very. has consigned συνέκλεισεν (synekleisen) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_4788.htm">Strong's 4788: </a> To enclose, shut in, make subject to. From sun and kleio; to shut together, i.e. Include or embrace in a common subjection to. all [men] πάντας (pantas) Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3956.htm">Strong's 3956: </a> All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole. to εἰς (eis) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_1519.htm">Strong's 1519: </a> A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases. disobedience ἀπείθειαν (apeitheian) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_543.htm">Strong's 543: </a> Willful unbelief, obstinacy, disobedience. From apeithes; disbelief. so that ἵνα (hina) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2443.htm">Strong's 2443: </a> In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that. He may have mercy on ἐλεήσῃ (eleēsē) Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_1653.htm">Strong's 1653: </a> To pity, have mercy on. From eleos; to compassionate. them all. πάντας (pantas) Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3956.htm">Strong's 3956: </a> All, the whole, every kind of. 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