Romans 11:1-20 ▼

1 I say then, did God cast away His people? Let it not be! For I am also an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin:

2 God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have you not known—in Elijah—what the Writing says? How he pleads with God concerning Israel, saying,

3 “LORD, they killed Your prophets, and they dug down Your altars, and I was left alone, and they seek my life”;

4 but what does the divine answer say to him? “I left to Myself seven thousand men who did not bow a knee to Ba‘al.”

5 So then also in the present time there has been a remnant according to the [divine] selection of grace;

6 and if by grace, no longer of works, otherwise grace becomes no longer grace; and if of works, it is no longer grace, otherwise work is no longer work.

7 What then? What Israel seeks after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen obtained, and the rest were hardened,

8 according as it has been written: “God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, to this very day,”

9 and David says, “Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a repayment to them;

10 let their eyes be darkened—not to behold, and You always bow down their back.”

11 I say then, did they stumble that they might fall? Let it not be! But by their fall the salvation [is] to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;

12 and if their fall [is] the riches of [the] world, and their diminishment the riches of nations, how much more their fullness?

13 For to you I speak—to the nations—inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, I glorify my ministry;

14 if I will arouse my own flesh to jealousy by any means, and will save some of them,

15 for if the casting away of them [is] a reconciliation of the world, what the reception—if not life out of the dead?

16 And if the first-fruit [is] holy, the lump also; and if the root [is] holy, the branches also.

17 And if certain of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree—

18 do not boast against the branches; and if you boast, you do not bear the root, but the root you!

19 You will say, then, “The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in”; right!

20 By unbelief they were broken off, and you have stood by faith; do not be high-minded, but be fearing;