Haweis - Romans - 11

11:1  I SAY then, Hath God rejected his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

11:2  God hath not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession with God against Israel, saying,

11:3  “Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I only am left, and they seek my life.”

11:4  But what saith the oracle of God to him? “I have left to myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

11:5  So then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

11:6  But if by grace, it is no more by works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if by works, it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

11:7  What then is the result? Israel hath not obtained that which it seeketh; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded,

11:8  as it is written, “God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear; unto this present day.”

11:9  And David saith, “Let their table be for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompence unto them:

11:10  let their eyes be blinded, that they may not see, and bow down their back continually.”

11:11  I say then, Have they stumbled so as to fall? God forbid: but by their stumbling salvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

11:12  For if their stumbling is the riches of the world, and their diminution the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

11:13  For I address myself to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am indeed the apostle of the Gentiles, I exalt my ministry:

11:14  if by any means I might provoke to jealousy my flesh, and save some of them.

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

11:16  Now if the first fruits be holy, so is the mass: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

11:17  But if some of the branches have been broken off, and thou though a wild olive hast been grafted in among them, and become a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

11:18  boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

11:19  Wilt thou say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in?

11:20  Admitted; by unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not high minded, but fear:

11:21  for if God spared not the native branches, tremble lest he spare not thee.

11:22  Behold therefore the kindness and severity of God: to those indeed who fell, severity; but unto thee, kindness, if thou continuest in that kindness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

11:23  But they also, if they continue not in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.

11:24  For if thou hast been cut out of the naturally wild olive, and contrary to nature hast been grafted into the good olive: how much more shall these, which are native branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

11:25  For I would not that you should be ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is come on Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

11:26  And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, “The Deliverer shall go forth out of Sion, and shalt turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

11:27  and this is my covenant with them, When I shall take away their sins.”

11:28  As concerning the gospel indeed, they are now enemies for your sakes: as concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.

11:29  For unchangeable are the gifts and the calling of God.

11:30  For as ye also in times past did not believe in God, but now have obtained mercy through their unbelief:

11:31  so also these now have not believed in your mercy, that they also might obtain mercy.

11:32  For God hath shut up all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

11:33  O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and how incomprehensible his ways!

11:34  For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been admitted his counsellor?

11:35  Or who hath first given unto him, and it shall be repaid him again?

11:36  Because by him, and through him, and for him, are all things, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.