Holy Bible
Romans:
Chapter 11
1. I SAY
then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also
am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2. God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not
what the scripture saith of E-li-as? how he maketh intercession to God
against Israel, saying,
3. Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars;
and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4. But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself
seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
5. Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according
to the election of grace.
6. And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no
more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace:
otherwise work is no more work.
7. What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for;
but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
8. (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of
slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not
hear;) unto this day.
9. And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a
stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
10. Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and bow down their
back alway.
11. I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? God
forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the
Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
12. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the
diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their
fulness?
13. For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the
Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14. If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh,
and might save some of them.
15. For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world,
what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16. For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the
root be holy, so are the branches.
17. And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild
olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the
root and fatness of the olive tree;
18. Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou
bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might
be grafted in.
20. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by
faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
21. For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also
spare not thee.
22. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which
fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his
goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23. And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted
in: for God is able to graft them in again.
24. For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature,
and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much
more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their
own olive tree?
25. For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this
mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in
part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come
in.
26. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come
out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27. For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their
sins.
28. As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as
touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.
29. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
30. For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained
mercy through their unbelief:
31. Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy
they also may obtain mercy.
32. For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have
mercy upon all.
33. O 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 hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his
counsellor?
35. Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him
again?
36. For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be
glory for ever. Amen.
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