Common - Romans - 11

11:1  I ask, then, has God rejected his people? Certainly not! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.

11:2  God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? —

11:3  "Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life."

11:4  But what is God’s reply to him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

11:5  So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.

11:6  And if it is by grace, then it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.

11:7  What then? Israel did not obtain what it sought. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,

11:8  as it is written: "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, down to this very day."

11:9  And David says: "Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them.

11:10  Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and bend their backs forever."

11:11  So I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall? Certainly not! But through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous.

11:12  Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness mean!

11:13  Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry

11:14  in the hope that I may somehow arouse to jealousy the kinsmen of my flesh and save some of them.

11:15  For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

11:16  If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole lump is holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

11:17  And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the rest to share the root of the olive tree,

11:18  do not boast over the branches. If you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

11:19  You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in."

11:20  That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast only by faith. So do not be proud, but stand in awe.

11:21  For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.

11:22  Therefore consider the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who fell, but kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

11:23  And they also, if they do not persist in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

11:24  For if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and were grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree!

11:25  I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

11:26  And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

11:27  and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins."

11:28  As regards the gospel they are enemies of God, for your sake; but as regards election they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.

11:29  For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

11:30  Just as you were once disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,

11:31  so they have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may receive mercy.

11:32  For God has bound all men over to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all.

11:33  Oh, the depth of the riches and of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out!

11:34  "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?"

11:35  "Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?"

11:36  For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.