Romans 11

¹I say then: God has not rejected his people, has he? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

²God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying:

³'Lord, they have killed your prophets, and they have torn down your altars, and I alone have been left, and they are seeking my life.'

⁴But what does the divine answer say to him? 'I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.'

⁵So then, also in the present time there has been a remnant according to the election of grace.

⁶But if by grace, it is no longer from works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. But if from works, it is no longer grace, since work is no longer work.

⁷What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained; but the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

⁸just as it has been written: 'God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes so as not to see and ears so as not to hear, until this very day.'

⁹And David says: 'Let their table become a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a retribution to them;'

¹⁰let their eyes be darkened so as not to see, and bow down their back continually.'

¹¹I say then, did they stumble so that they might fall? May it never be! But by their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make them jealous.

¹²But if their trespass is riches for the world and their loss is riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!

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

¹⁴if somehow I might provoke to jealousy my kinsmen and save some of them.

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

¹⁶But if the firstfruit is holy, so also is the lump; and if the root is holy, so also are the branches.

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

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

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

²⁰True. They were broken off by unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be haughty in mind, but fear.

²¹For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

²²Behold therefore the kindness and the severity of God: upon those who fell, severity; but toward you, the kindness of God — if you continue in kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

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

²⁴For if you were cut out of what is by nature a wild olive tree and grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are according to nature, be grafted into their own olive tree?

²⁵For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, lest you be wise in your own estimation: that a hardening in part has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

²⁶and so all Israel will be saved, just as it has been written: 'The Deliverer will come out of Zion; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob.'

²⁷and this is the covenant from me to them, when I take away their sins.'

²⁸As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake; but as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.

²⁹For the gifts of grace and the calling of God are irrevocable.

³⁰For just as you yourselves once were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy by their disobedience,

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

³²For God has shut up all in disobedience, so that he might show mercy to all.

³³O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and how untraceable his ways!

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

³⁵Or who has given to him first, and it will be repaid to him?

³⁶For from him and through him and unto him are all things; to him be glory forever. Amen.