MKJV - Romans - 11

11:1  I say then, Did not God put away His people? Let it not be said! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

11:2  God did not thrust out His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture said in Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,

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

11:4  But what does the Divine answer say to him? "I have reserved to Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

11:5  Even so then, also in this present time a remnant according to the election of grace has come into being.

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

11:7  What then? Israel has not obtained that which it seeks, but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened

11:8  even as it is written, "God gave to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not seeing, and ears not hearing" until this day.

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

11:10  Let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and their back always bowing."

11:11  I say then, Did they not stumble that they fall? Let it not be! But by their slipping away came salvation to the nations, to provoke them to jealousy.

11:12  But if their slipping away is the riches of the world, and their default is the riches of the nations, how much more their fullness?

11:13  For I speak to you, the nations; since I am the apostle of the nations, I glorify my ministry;

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

11:15  For if their casting away is the reconciling of the world, what is the reception except life from the dead?

11:16  For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, also the branches.

11:17  And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a sharer of the root and the fatness of the olive tree with them,

11:18  do not boast against the branches. But if you boast, it is not you that bears the root, but the root bears you.

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

11:20  Well, because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be high-minded, but fear.

11:21  For if God did not spare the natural branches, fear lest He also may not spare you either!

11:22  Behold then the kindness, and the severity of God; on those having fallen, severity; but on you, kindness, if you continue in the kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.

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

11:24  For if you were cut out of the natural wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more these being according to nature will be grafted into their own olive-tree?

11:25  For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, lest you should be wise within yourselves; that blindness in part has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the nations has comes in.

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

11:27  For this is My covenant with them, when I have taken away their sins."

11:28  Indeed as regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes. But as regards the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.

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

11:30  For as you also then disbelieved God, but now have been shown mercy through their disbelief,

11:31  even so these also have not believed now, so that through your mercy they may also obtain mercy.

11:32  For God has shut up all in unbelief, so that He might show mercy to all.

11:33  O the depth of the riches both 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 became His counselor?

11:35  Or who first gave to Him, and it will be repaid to him?

11:36  For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things; to Him be glory forever! Amen.