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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don't you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah--how he appealed to God against Israel: |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me"? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4And what was God's answer to him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain. The elect among them did, but the others were hardened, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8as it is written: "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see and ears that could not hear, to this very day." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And David says: "May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever." |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their full inclusion bring! |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support 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 could be grafted in." |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. |
| 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] | 22Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree! |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27And this 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 on account of the patriarchs, |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29for God's gifts and his call are irrevocable. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of God's mercy to you. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34"Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?" |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35"Who has ever given to God, that God should repay them?" |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen. |
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