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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1So I ask, "God has not rejected his people, has he?" Of course not! I am an Israeli myself, a descendant of Abraham from the tribe of Benjamin. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2God has not rejected his people whom he chose long ago. Do you not know what the Scripture says in the story about Elijah, when he pleads with God against Israel? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Lord, they have killed your prophets and demolished your altars. I am the only one left, and they are trying to take my life." |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4But what was the divine reply to him? "I have reserved for myself 7,000 people who have not knelt to worship Baal." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5So it is at the present time: there is a remnant, chosen by grace. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6But if this is by grace, then it is no longer on the basis of actions. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7What, then, does this mean? It means that Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking, but the selected group obtained it while the rest were hardened. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8As it is written, "To this day God has put them into deep sleep. Their eyes do not see, and their ears do not hear." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a punishment for them. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and keep their backs forever bent." |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And so I ask, "They have not stumbled so as to fall, have they?" Of course not! On the contrary, because of their stumbling, salvation has come to the gentiles to make the Jews jealous. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Now if their stumbling means riches for the world, and if their fall means riches for the gentiles, how much more will their full participation mean! |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I am speaking to you gentiles. Because I am an apostle to the gentiles, I magnify my ministry |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14in the hope that I can make my people jealous and save some of them. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For if their rejection results in reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance bring but life from the dead? |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch. If the root is holy, so are the branches. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Now if some of the branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive branch, have been grafted in their place to share the rich root of the olive tree, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18do not boast about being better than the other branches. If you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Then you will say, "Branches were cut off so that I could be grafted in." |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20That's right! They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you remain only because of faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid! |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For if God did not spare the natural branches, he certainly will not spare you, either. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Consider, then, the kindness and severity of God: his severity toward those who fell, but God's kindness toward you—if you continue receiving his kindness. Otherwise, you too will be cut off. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23If the Jews do not persist in their unbelief, they will be grafted in again, because God is able to graft them in. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24After all, if you were cut off from what is naturally a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much easier it will be for these natural branches to be grafted back into their own olive tree! |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25For I want to let you know about this secret, brothers, so that you will not claim to be wiser than you are: Stubbornness has come to part of Israel until the full number of the gentiles comes to faith. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26In this way, all Israel will be saved, as it is written, "The Deliverer will come from Zion; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27This is my covenant with them when I take away their sins." |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake, but as far as election is concerned, they are loved for the sake of their ancestors. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29For God's gifts and calling never change. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30For just as you disobeyed God in the past but now have received his mercy because of their disobedience, |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31so they, too, have now disobeyed. As a result, they may receive mercy because of the mercy shown to you. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32For God has locked all people in the prison of their own disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33O how deep are God's riches, and wisdom, and knowledge! How unfathomable are his decisions and unexplainable are his ways! |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has become his adviser? |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35Or who has given him something only to have him pay it back?" |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36For all things are from him, by him, and for him. Glory belongs to him forever! Amen. |
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