Romans 11:13–36

¹³Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Insofar as I am an apostle to the Gentiles,ⁱ I magnify my ministry, ¹⁴if I might somehow make my own people^Hj jealous and save some of them.^{k 15}For if their rejection brings reconciliation^l to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?^{m 16}Now if the firstfruits are holy,ⁿ so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.

¹⁷Now if some of the branches were broken off,^o and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them^p and have come to share in the rich root^I of the cultivated olive tree, ¹⁸do not boast that you are better than those branches. But if you do boast—you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.^{q 19}Then you will say,^r “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” ²⁰True enough; they were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith.^s Do not be arrogant, but beware,^{Jt 21}because if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. ²²Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness^u toward you—if you remain in his kindness.^v Otherwise you too will be cut off.^{w 23}And even they, if they do not remain in unbelief,^x will be grafted in, because God has the power to graft them in again. ²⁴For if you were cut off from your native wild olive tree and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these—the natural branches—be grafted into their own olive tree?

²⁵I don’t want you to be ignorant^y of this mystery,^z brothers and sisters, so that you will not be conceited:^aa A partial hardening has come upon Israel^ab until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.^{ac 26}And in this way all^A Israel will be saved, as it is written,

The Deliverer will come from Zion;

he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.

²⁷And this will be my covenant with them^Bad

when I take away their sins.^Cae

²⁸Regarding the gospel, they are enemies for your advantage,^af but regarding election, they are loved because of the patriarchs,^{ag 29}since God’s gracious gifts and calling^ah are irrevocable.^{Dai 30}As you once disobeyed God but now have received mercy through their disobedience, ³¹so they too have now disobeyed, resulting in mercy to you, so that they also may now^E receive mercy. ³²For God has imprisoned all in disobedience^aj so that he may have mercy on all.

A HYMN OF PRAISE

³³Oh, the depth of the riches^ak

and the wisdom and the knowledge of God!^al

How unsearchable his judgments^am

and untraceable his ways!

³⁴For who has known the mind of the Lord?^an

Or who has been his counselor?

³⁵And who has ever given to God,

that he should be repaid?^Fao

³⁶For from him and through him

and to him are all things.^ap

To him be the glory forever. Amen.