Romans 11:13–36

Gentile Branches Grafted in

¹³Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Therefore, inasmuch as I am apostle to the Gentiles, I promote my ministry, ¹⁴if somehow I may provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them. ¹⁵For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean except life from the dead? ¹⁶Now if the first fruits are holy, so also is the whole batch of dough, and if the root is holy, so also are the branches.

¹⁷Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although you^* were a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them and became a sharer of the root of the olive tree’s richness, ¹⁸do not boast against the branches. But if you boast against them, you do not support the root, but the root supports you. ¹⁹Then you will say, “Branches were broken off in order that I could be grafted in.” ²⁰Well said! They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand firm because of faith. Do not think arrogant thoughts, but be afraid. ²¹For if God did not spare the natural^h branches, neither will he spare you.^{i 22}See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity upon those who have fallen, but upon you the kindness of God—if you continue in his kindness, for otherwise you also will be cut off. ²³And those also, if they do not persist in unbelief, will be grafted in, because God is able to graft them in again. ²⁴For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are natural branches^j be grafted into their own olive tree?

All Israel to be Saved

²⁵For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you will not be wise in your own sight,^k that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, ²⁶and so all Israel will be saved, just as it is written,

“The deliverer will come out of Zion;

he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

²⁷And this is the covenant from me with them^l

when I take away their sins.”^m

²⁸With respect to the gospel, they are enemies for your sake, but with respect to election, they are dearly loved for the sake of the fathers. ²⁹For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. ³⁰For just as you formerly were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of the disobedience of these, ³¹so also these have now been disobedient for your mercy, in order that they also may now be shown mercy. ³²For God confined them all in disobedience, in order that he could have mercy on them all.

³³Oh, the depth of the riches

and the wisdom and the knowledge of God!

How unsearchable are his judgments

and how incomprehensible are his ways!

³⁴“For who has known the mind of the Lord,

or who has been his counselor?ⁿ

³⁵Or who has given in advance to him,

and it will be paid back to him?”^o

³⁶For from him and through him and to him are all things.

To him be glory for eternity! Amen.