Romans 11:1-21 ▼

1 I say then, Has God rejected his people It may not be. For I also am an Israelite, of Abraham's seed, of the tribe of Benjamin.

2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or know ye not in Elias, what says the writing? how he addresses God against Israel, saying,

3 Lord, thy prophets have they killed, and dug down thine altars; and I alone was left, and they seek my soul.

4 But what say to him the intimations of divine will I have left to myself seven thousand men, who bent not the knee to Baal.

5 So then also in the time now has been a remnant according to the election of grace.

6 And if to grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. And if of works, it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

7 What then What Israel seeks for, this be attained not; but the selection attained, and the rest were hardened.

8 (As has been written, God gave them the spirit of mortal pain, eyes not to see, and earn not to hear;) even to this day.

9 And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for booty, and for a stumblingblock, and for a retribution to them:

10 Let their eyes be darkened not to see, and let them bend their back always.

11 I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? It may not be: but by their fall salvation to the nations, to make them jealous.

12 And if their fall the riches of the world, and their disaster the riches of the nations; how much more their fulness?

13 (For I speak to you the nations, inasmuch as truly I am the sent of the nations, I highly value my service:

14 If in some way I might make jealous my flesh, and I might save some of them.)

15 For if their rejection the reconciliation of the world, what the reception, but life from the dead?

16 And if the first fruit holy, also the mixture: and if the root holy, also the young shoots.

17 And if certain of the young shoots were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in them, and wert a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

18 Act not proudly to the young shoots. And if thou boastest, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

19 Thou wilt say then, That the young shoots were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

20 Well; for unbelief were they broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but do thou fear:

21 For if God spared not the young shoots according to nature, how will he either spare thee.