Romans 11:24–36

²⁴In spite of the fact that you have been cut from a wild olive tree, you have been grafted onto a cultivated one. So wouldn’t it be easier for these natural branches to be grafted onto the olive tree they belong to? 

²⁵Brothers and sisters, I want you to understand this mystery so that you won’t become arrogant. The minds of some Israelites have become closed until all of God’s non-Jewish people are included. ²⁶In this way Israel as a whole will be saved, as Scripture says, 

“The Savior will come from Zion. 

He will remove godlessness from Jacob. 

²⁷My promise^bto them will be fulfilled 

when I take away their sins.” 

²⁸The Good News made the Jewish people enemies because of you. But by God’s choice they are loved because of their ancestors. ²⁹God never changes his mind when he gives gifts or when he calls someone. ³⁰In the past, you disobeyed God. But now God has been merciful to you because of the disobedience of the Jewish people. ³¹In the same way, the Jewish people have also disobeyed so that God may be merciful to them as he was to you. ³²God has placed all people into the prison of their own disobedience so that he could be merciful to all people. 

³³God’s riches, wisdom, and knowledge are so deep 

that it is impossible to explain his decisions 

or to understand his ways. 

³⁴“Who knows how the Lord thinks? 

Who can become his adviser?” 

³⁵Who gave the Lord something 

which the Lord must pay back? 

³⁶Everything is from him and by him and for him. 

Glory belongs to him forever! Amen!