RO-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.

RO-11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot

ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh

intercession to God against Israel, saying,

RO-11:3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down

thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

RO-11:4 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.

RO-11:5 Even so then at this present time also there is a

remnant according to the election of grace.

RO-11:6 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.

RO-11:7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he

seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest

were blinded

RO-11:8 (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.

RO-11:9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a

trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them:

RO-11:10 Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and

bow down their back alway.

RO-11:11 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.

RO-11:12 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?

RO-11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the

apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:

RO-11:14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation [them which

are] my flesh, and might save some of them.

RO-11:15 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?

RO-11:16 For if the firstfruit [be] holy, the lump [is] also

[holy]: and if the root [be] holy, so [are] the branches.

RO-11:17 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;

RO-11:18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou

bearest not the root, but the root thee.

RO-11:19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that

I might be grafted in.

RO-11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and

thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

RO-11:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, [take heed]

lest he also spare not thee.

RO-11:22 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.

RO-11:23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief,

shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.

RO-11:24 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?

RO-11:25 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.

RO-11:26 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:

RO-11:27 For this [is] my covenant unto them, when I shall take

away their sins.

RO-11:28 As concerning the gospel, [they are] enemies for your

sakes: but as touching the election, [they are] beloved for the

fathers' sakes.

RO-11:29 For the gifts and calling of God [are] without

repentance.

RO-11:30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have

now obtained mercy through their unbelief:

RO-11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through

your mercy they also may obtain mercy.

RO-11:32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he

might have mercy upon all.

RO-11:33 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!

RO-11:34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath

been his counsellor?

RO-11:35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be

recompensed unto him again?

RO-11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, [are] all

things: to whom [be] glory for ever. Amen.

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