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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? May it never be! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2God 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? |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Lord, THEY HAVE KILLED YOUR PROPHETS, THEY HAVE TORN DOWN YOUR ALTARS, AND I ALONE AM LEFT, AND THEY ARE SEEKING MY LIFE." |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4But what is the divine response to him? "I HAVE KEPT for Myself SEVEN THOUSAND MEN WHO HAVE NOT BOWED THE KNEE TO BAAL." |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God's gracious choice. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but those who were chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened; |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8just as it is written, "GOD GAVE THEM A SPIRIT OF STUPOR, EYES TO SEE NOT AND EARS TO HEAR NOT, DOWN TO THIS VERY DAY." |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And David says, "LET THEIR TABLE BECOME A SNARE AND A TRAP, AND A STUMBLING BLOCK AND A RETRIBUTION TO THEM. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"LET THEIR EYES BE DARKENED TO SEE NOT, AND BEND THEIR BACKS FOREVER." |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fulfillment be! |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow countrymen and save some of them. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16If the first piece of dough is holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, the branches are too. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17But 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 rich root of the olive tree, |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18do not be arrogant toward the branches; but if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in." |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear; |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either. |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God's kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off. |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree? |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery-- so that you will not be wise in your own estimation-- that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, "THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB." |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"THIS IS MY COVENANT WITH THEM, WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS." |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of God's choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers; |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. |
30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30For just as you once were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of their disobedience, |
31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31so these also now have been disobedient, that because of the mercy shown to you they also may now be shown mercy. |
32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32For God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all. |
33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! |
34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, OR WHO BECAME HIS COUNSELOR? |
35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35Or WHO HAS FIRST GIVEN TO HIM THAT IT MIGHT BE PAID BACK TO HIM AGAIN? |
36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen. |
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