Romans 11

Israel’s Rejection Not Total

11I say then, ^ahas God cast away His people? ^bCertainly not! For ^cI also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. ²God has not cast away His people whom ^dHe foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying, ^3e“Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life”? ⁴But what does the divine response say to him? ^f“I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” ^5gEven so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. ⁶And ^hif by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. ¹But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

⁷What then? ⁱIsrael has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were ^jblinded. ⁸Just as it is written:

^k“God has given them a spirit of stupor,

^lEyes that they should not see

And ears that they should not hear,

To this very day.”

⁹And David says:

^m“Let their table become a snare and a trap,

A stumbling block and a recompense to them.

¹⁰Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see,

And bow down their back always.”

Israel’s Rejection Not Final

¹¹I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But ⁿthrough their ²fall, to provoke them to ^ojealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. ¹²Now if their ³fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!

¹³For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as ^pI am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, ¹⁴if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and ^qsave some of them. ¹⁵For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be ^rbut life from the dead?

¹⁶For if ^sthe firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. ¹⁷And if ^tsome of the branches were broken off, ^uand you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and ⁴fatness of the olive tree, ^18vdo not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

¹⁹You will say then, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.” ²⁰Well said. Because of ^wunbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. ²¹For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. ²²Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, ⁵goodness, ^xif you continue in His goodness. Otherwise ^yyou also will be cut off. ²³And they also, ^zif they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. ²⁴For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

²⁵For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be ^awise in your own ⁶opinion, that ^bblindness in part has happened to Israel ^cuntil the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. ²⁶And so all Israel will be ⁷saved, as it is written:

^d“The Deliverer will come out of Zion,

And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

²⁷For ^ethis is My covenant with them,

When I take away their sins.”

²⁸Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are ^fbeloved for the sake of the fathers. ²⁹For the gifts and the calling of God are ^girrevocable. ³⁰For as you ^hwere once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, ³¹even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. ³²For God has ⁸committed them ⁱall to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.

³³Oh, 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 has known the ^jmind of the Lord?

Or ^kwho has become His counselor?”

³⁵“Or ^lwho has first given to Him

And it shall be repaid to him?”

³⁶For ^mof Him and through Him and to Him are all things, ⁿto whom be glory forever. Amen.