| 1 I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am
an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God did
not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture
saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel: 3 Lord, they
have killed thy prophets, they have 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 left for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to
Baal. 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant
according to the election of grace. 6 But if it is by grace, it is no more
of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. 7 What then? that which Israel
seeketh for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest
were hardened: 8 according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of
stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear,
unto this very day. 9 And David saith,
Let their table be made a snare, and a trap,
And a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them:
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see,
And bow thou down their back always.
11 I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? God forbid: but by
their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, to provoke them to
jealousy. 12 Now if their fall, is the riches of the world, and their loss
the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? 13 But I speak to
you that are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I
glorify my ministry; 14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy them
that are my flesh, and may save some of them. 15 For if the casting
away of them is the reconciling of the world, what shall the
receiving of them be, but life from the dead? 16 And if the
firstfruit is 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 thou, being
a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them
of the root of the fatness of the olive tree; 18 glory not over the
branches: but if thou gloriest, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the
root thee. 19 Thou wilt say then, Branches were broken off, that I might
be grafted in. 20 Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, and thou
standest by thy faith. Be not highminded, but fear: 21 for if God spared
not the natural branches, neither will he spare thee. 22 Behold then the
goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but toward
thee, God's goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also
shalt be cut off. 23 And they also, if they continue not in their
unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if thou wast cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree,
and wast grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more
shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their
own olive tree? 25 For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this
mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part hath
befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in; 26 and so
all Israel shall be saved: even as it is written,
There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer;
He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 And this is my covenant unto them,
When I shall take away their sins.
28 As touching the gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching
the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake. 29 For the gifts and
the calling of God are not repented of. 30 For as ye in time past were
disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,
31 even so have these also now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown
to you they also may now obtain mercy. 32 For God hath shut up all unto
disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all. 33 O the depth of the
riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his
judgments, and his ways past tracing 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 unto him, are all things. To him be the glory for
ever. Amen.
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