Romans 11

1 I say then, did God reject his people? May it never be. For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.⋮

2 God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel?⋮

3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.”⋮

4 But what does God's answer say to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bent the knee to Baal.”⋮

5 Even so then, at this present time also there is a remnant because of the choice of grace.⋮

6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer by works. Otherwise grace would no longer be grace.⋮

7 What then? The thing that Israel was seeking, it did not obtain, but the chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened.⋮

8 It is just as it is written: “God has given them a spirit of dullness, eyes so that they should not see, and ears so that they should not hear, to this very day.”⋮

9 Then David says, “Let their table become a net and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them.⋮

10 Let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and bend their backs continually.”⋮

11 I say then, “Did they stumble so as to fall?” May it never be. Instead, by their failure, salvation has come to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.⋮

12 Now if their failure is the riches of the world, and if their loss is the riches of the Gentiles, how much greater will their completion be?⋮

13 But now I am speaking to you Gentiles, and as long as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry.⋮

14 Perhaps I will provoke to jealousy those who are of my own flesh. Perhaps we will save some of them.⋮

15 For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?⋮

16 If the firstfruits are reserved, so is the lump of dough. If the root is reserved, so are the branches.⋮

17 But if some of the branches were broken off, if you, a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them, and if you shared with them in the rich root of the olive tree,⋮

18 do not boast over the branches. But if you do boast, it is not you who supports the root, but the root that supports you.⋮

19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”⋮

20 That is true. Because of their unbelief they were broken off, but you stand firm because of your faith. Do not think too highly of yourself, but fear.⋮

21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.⋮

22 Look at, then, the kind actions and the severity of God: severity came on the Jews who fell, but God's kindness comes on you, if you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.⋮

23 And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in. For God is able to graft them in again.⋮

24 For if you were cut out of what is by nature a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a good olive tree, how much more will these Jews, who are the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree?⋮

25 For I do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, of this mystery, in order that you will not be wise in your own thinking. This mystery is that a partial hardening has occurred in Israel, until the completion of the Gentiles come in.⋮

26 Thus all Israel will be saved, just as it is written: “Out of Zion will come the Deliverer. He will remove ungodliness from Jacob,⋮

27 and this will be my covenant with them, when I will take away their sins.”⋮

28 As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake. But as far as election is concerned, they are beloved because of their forefathers.⋮

29 For the gifts and the call of God are unchangeable.⋮

30 For you were formerly disobedient to God, but now you have received mercy because of their disobedience.⋮

31 In the same way, now these Jews have been disobedient. The result was that by the mercy shown to you they may also now receive mercy.⋮

32 For God has shut up all into disobedience, in order that he might show mercy on all.⋮

33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond discovering!⋮

34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord or who has become his advisor?⋮

35 Or who has first given anything to God, that God must repay him?”⋮

36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen.⋮