RWebster - Romans - 11

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

11:2  God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,

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

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

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

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

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

11:8  (According 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;) to this day.

11:9  And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence to them:

11:10  Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always.

11:11  I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? By no means: but rather through their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

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 fulness?

11:13  For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office:

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

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

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

11:17  And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

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

11:19  Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

11:20  Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

11:21  For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

11:22  Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them who fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou shalt continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

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

11:24  For if thou wast cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wast grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

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

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

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

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

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

11:30  For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:

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

11:32  For God hath concluded them 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 his ways past finding out!

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

11:35  Or who hath 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 whom be glory for ever. Amen.