Romans 11:13–36

¹³I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles,^u I take pride in my ministry ¹⁴in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy^v and save^w some of them. ¹⁵For if their rejection brought reconciliation^x to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?^{y 16}If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits^z is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

¹⁷If some of the branches have been broken off,^a and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others^b and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, ¹⁸do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.^{c 19}You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” ²⁰Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith.^d Do not be arrogant,^e but tremble.^{f 21}For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.

²²Consider therefore the kindness^g and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue^h in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.^{i 23}And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.^{j 24}After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree,^k how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

All Israel Will Be Saved

²⁵I do not want you to be ignorant^l of this mystery,^m brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited:ⁿ Israel has experienced a hardening^o in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in,^{p 26}and in this way^e all Israel will be saved.^q As it is written:

“The deliverer will come from Zion;

he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.

²⁷And this is^f my covenant with them

when I take away their sins.”^gr

²⁸As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies^s for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs,^{t 29}for God’s gifts and his call^u are irrevocable.^{v 30}Just as you who were at one time disobedient^w to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, ³¹so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now^h receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you. ³²For God has bound everyone over to disobedience^x so that he may have mercy on them all.

Doxology

³³Oh, the depth of the riches^y of the wisdom andⁱ knowledge of God!^z

How unsearchable his judgments,

and his paths beyond tracing out!^a

³⁴“Who has known the mind of the Lord?

Or who has been his counselor?”^jb

³⁵“Who has ever given to God,

that God should repay them?”^kc

³⁶For from him and through him and for him are all things.^d

To him be the glory forever! Amen.^e