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Romans Chapter 11 011:001 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. 011:002 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: 011:003 "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."{1 Kings 19:10,14} 011:004 But how does God answer him?
"I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal."{1 Kings 19:18} 011:005 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 011:006 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. 011:007 What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn't obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
011:008 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."{Deuteronomy 29:4; Isaiah 29:10} 011:009 David says, "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them. 011:010 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always."{Psalm 69:22,23} 011:011 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. 011:012 Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness? 011:013 For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry; 011:014 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
011:015 For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead? 011:016 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches. 011:017 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; 011:018 don't boast over the branches.
But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you. 011:019 You will say then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in." 011:020 True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear; 011:021 for if God didn't spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. 011:022 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. 011:023 They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 011:024 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?
011:025 For I don't desire you to be ignorant, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} 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, 011:026 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.
011:027 This is my covenant to them, when I will take away their sins."{Isaiah 59:20-21; 27:9; Jeremiah 31:33-34} 011:028 Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake. 011:029 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
011:030 For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, 011:031 even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy. 011:032 For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all. 011:033 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! 011:034 "For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?"{Isaiah 40:13} 011:035 "Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?"{Job 41:11} 011:036 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.