Bible, King James Version
Romans
Rom.11
[1] I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid.
For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe
of Benjamin.
[2] God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.
Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh
intercession to God against Israel, saying,
[3] Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down
thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
[4] But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have
reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the
knee to the image of Baal.
[5] Even so then at this present time also there is a
remnant according to the election of grace.
[6] And if by grace, then is it no more of works:
otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is
it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
[7] What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he
seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were
blinded
[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;) unto this day.
[9] And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and
a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompence unto them:
[10] Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see,
and bow down their back alway.
[11] I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall?
God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto
the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
[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?
[13] For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the
apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
[14] If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which
are my flesh, and might save some of them.
[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?
[16] For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy:
and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
[17] And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou,
being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with
them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
[18] Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast,
thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
[19] Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off,
that I might be graffed in.
[20] Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and
thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
[21] For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed
lest he also spare not thee.
[22] Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on
them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou
continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut
off.
[23] And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief,
shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
[24] For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is
wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good
olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural
branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
[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 is happened to Israel, until the fulness
of the Gentiles be come in.
[26] And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written,
There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away
ungodliness from Jacob:
[27] For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take
away their sins.
[28] As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your
sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the
fathers' sakes.
[29] For the gifts and calling of God are without
repentance.
[30] For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet
have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
[31] Even so have these also now not believed, that
through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
[32] For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he
might have mercy upon all.
[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!
[34] For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath
been his counseller?
[35] Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be
recompensed unto him again?
[36] For of him, and through him, and to him, are all
things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
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