Romans Chapter 11 Back Next{11:1} I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of
Abraham, of the tribe of
Benjamin.
{11:2} God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about
Elijah? How he pleads with God against
Israel:
{11:3} "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your
altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."[
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{11:4} But how does God answer him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to
Baal."[
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{11:5} Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the
election of grace.
{11:6} And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
{11:7} What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn't obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
{11:8} According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day."[
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{11:9}
David says, "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.
{11:10} Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always."[
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{11:11} I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the
Gentiles, to provoke them to
jealousy.
{11:12} Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
{11:13} For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an
apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
{11:14} if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my
flesh, and may save some of them.
{11:15} For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
{11:16} If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
{11:17} But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were
grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;
{11:18} don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.
{11:19} You will say then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."
{11:20} True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear;
{11:21} for if God didn't spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
{11:22} See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
{11:23} They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
{11:24} For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
{11:25} For I don't desire you to be ignorant,
brothers, of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
{11:26} and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from
Jacob.
{11:27} This is my
covenant to them, when I will take away their sins."[
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{11:28} Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the
fathers' sake.
{11:29} For the
gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
{11:30} For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,
{11:31} even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy.
{11:32} For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.
{11:33} Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
{11:34} "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his
counselor?"[
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{11:35} "Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?"[
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{11:36} For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever!
Amen.
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