Sha'ul�s Letter to the Romans, Chapter 11
{11:1} I ask then, Did God reject his people? Certainly not! For I
also am an Yisra'elite, a descendant of Avraham, of the tribe of
Binyamin. {11:2} God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or
don't you know what the scripture says about Eliyah? How he pleads
with God against Yisra'el: {11:3} "Lord, they have killed your
prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and
they seek my life." {11:4} But how does God answer him? "I have
reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to
Ba`al." {11:5} Even so then at this present time also there is a
remnant according to the election of grace. {11:6} And if by grace,
then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But
if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer
work. {11:7} What then? That which Yisra'el seeks for, that he didn't
obtain, but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
{11:8} 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, to
this very day." {11:9} David says,
"Let their table be made a snare, and a trap,
A stumbling block, and a retribution to them.
{11:10} Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see.
Bow down their back always."
{11:11} I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? Certainly
not! But by their fall salvation has come to the Goyim, to provoke
them to jealousy. {11:12} Now if their fall is the riches of the
world, and their loss the riches of the Goyim; how much more their
fullness? {11:13} For I speak to you who are Goyim. Since then as I am
an apostle to Goyim, I glorify my ministry; {11:14} if by any means I
may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of
them. {11:15} For if the rejection of them [is] the reconciling of the
world, what would the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
{11:16} If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is
holy, so are the branches. {11:17} But if some of the branches were
broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them,
and became partaker with them of the root of the richness of the olive
tree; {11:18} don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is
not you who bear the root, but the root you. {11:19} You will say
then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in." {11:20}
True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your
faith. Don't be conceited, but fear; {11:21} for if God didn't spare
the natural branches, neither will he spare you. {11:22} See then the
goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but
toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you
also will be cut off. {11:23} They also, if they don't continue in
their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in
again. {11:24} For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a
wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive
tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be
grafted into their own olive tree? {11:25} For I don't desire,
brothers, to have you ignorant of this mystery, so that you won't be
wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part has happened to
Yisra'el, until the fullness of the Goyim has come in, {11:26} and so
all Yisra'el will be saved. Even as it is written,
"There will come out of Tziyon the Deliverer,
And he will turn away ungodliness from Ya`akov.
{11:27} This is my covenant to them,
When I will take away their sins."
{11:28} Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake.
But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.
{11:29} For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. {11:30}
For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained
mercy by their disobedience, {11:31} even so these also have now been
disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain
mercy. {11:32} For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might
have mercy on all. {11:33} Oh 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!
{11:34} "For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?"
{11:35} "Or who has first given to him,
And it will be repaid to him again?"
{11:36} For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To
him be the glory for ever! Amein.
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