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AICNT ROM Chapter 11

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11 I say then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? [[saying]][fn] 3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.”[fn] 4 But what does the divine response say to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”[fn]

5 So too, at the present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. [[But if it is by works, it is no longer grace, since the work is no longer work.]][fn]

7 What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking, but the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened, 8 just as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes not to see and ears not to hear, until this very day.”[fn] 9 And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them; 10 Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and bend their back continually.”[fn]

11 I say then, have they stumbled so as to fall? By no means! But by their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. 12 But if their transgression is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the nations, how much more will their fullness be.

13 {Now}[fn] I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry 14 if somehow I might provoke to jealousy my own flesh and 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 Now if the firstfruits are holy, so is the lump; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and have become a partaker of the root and the richness of the olive tree, 18 do not boast over the branches. But if you do boast, remember it is not you who support 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. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear; 21 for if God did not spare the natural branches, [perhaps][fn] he will not spare you either.

22 Behold then the kindness and severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but [God's][fn] kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off. 23 And those also, if they do not persist in unbelief, will be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.

25 Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And in this way all Israel will be saved, just as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.” 27 “And this is the covenant for them from me, when I take away their sins.”[fn]

28 As for the gospel, they are enemies for your sake; but as for the election, they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

30 Just as you were once disobedient to God, but now have received mercy through their disobedience, 31 so they too have now been disobedient in order that, by the mercy shown to you, they also [now][fn] may receive mercy. 32 For God has consigned all to disobedience, so that he may have mercy on all.

33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how unsearchable[fn] are his ways!

34 For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?[fn] 35 Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?[fn] 36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

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