LO - Romans - 11

11:1  I say, then, has God cast off his people? By no means. For, even I am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

11:2  God has not cast off his people whom formerly he acknowledged. Do you not know, what the scripture says to Elijah; when he complains to God against Israel, saying ,

11:3  "Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and have digged down thy altars, and I am let alone, and they seek my life?"

11:4  But what says the answer to God to him? "I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

11:5  So, then, even at this present time, there is a remnant according to an election by favor.

11:6  And if by favor, it is no more of works: otherwise favor is no more favor.

11:7  What then? The thing Israel earnestly seeks, that he has not obtained. But the election has obtained it, and the rest are blinded.

11:8  As it is written, "God has given them a spirit of deep sleep; eyes not seeing, and ears not hearing, until this present day."

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

11:10  Let their eyes be darkened, so as not to see; and let them bow down their back continually.

11:11  I ask, then, have they stumbled, that they may fall? By no means. But, through their fall, salvation is given to the Gentiles, to excite them to emulation.

11:12  Now, if the fall of them be the riches of the world; and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?

11:13  Now, I speak to you, Gentiles, (and inasmuch as I am the Apostle to the Gentiles, I do honor to my ministry,)

11:14  if by any means I may excite to emulation my kindred, and may save some of them.

11:15  For, if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world; what will the receiving of them be , but life from the dead?

11:16  Moreover, if the first fruit be holy, the mass is also holy; and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

11:17  Now, if some of the branches were broken off, and you who are a wild olive, are ingrafted among them, and are become a joint partaker of the root and fatness of the olive;

11:18  boast not against the branches: but if you boast, still, you bear not the root, but the root you.

11:19  You will say, however, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

11:20  True: by unbelief they were broken off, and you by faith, stand. Be not high-minded, but fear.

11:21  For, if God spared not the natural branches; perhaps, neither will he spare you.

11:22  Behold, then, the goodness and severity of God! Toward them who fell, severity: but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise, you also shall be cut off.

11:23  And even they, if they continued not in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.

11:24  For if you were cut off from the olive, by nature wild, and were contrary to nature, grafted into the good olive; how much rather shall those who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive?

11:25  For, brethren, that you may not be, wise in your own conceits, I would not have you ignorant of this secret, that blindness, in part, has happened to Israel, till the fullness of the Gentiles come in.

11:26  And so all Israel shall be saved; as it is written, "The deliverer shall come out of Zion, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

11:27  For this is my covenant with them, when I shall take away their sins."

11:28  With respect to the gospel, indeed, they are enemies, on your account: but with respect to the election, they are beloved on account of the fathers.

11:29  For the free gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

11:30  Besides, as you, in times past, have disobeyed God, yet now have obtained mercy through their disobedience;

11:31  even so these, also, have no disobeyed, that through your mercy, they also may obtain mercy.

11:32  For God has shut up together all for disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.

11:33  Oh that depth of the riches and of the wisdom and of the 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 counsellor?

11:35  or who has first given to him, and it shall be recompensed to him again?

11:36  For, from him, and by him, and to him, are all things: to him be the glory forever. Amen.