Romans 11:1-22 ▼

1 I say then, did God thrust away His people? Never may it be! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

2 God did not thrust away His people, whom He foreknew. Or do you? not know what the Scripture says in Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel:

3 “Lord, they killed Your prophets, they tore down Your altars, and I alone was left, 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 the knee to Baal.”

5 So then also in the present time, there has been a remnant according to the election of grace,

6 and if by grace, no longer out of works; otherwise grace no longer is grace.

7 What then? What Israel seeks after, this it did not obtain, but the elect obtained it. And the rest were hardened,

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

9 And David says: May their table “become for a snare and for a trap, and for a stumbling block and for a retribution to them.

10 May their eyes be darkened not to see, and their backs bent over through all time.”

11 I say then, did they stumble so that they might fall? Never may it be! But in their trespass is salvation to the Gentiles, so as to provoke them to jealousy.

12 But if their trespass is the riches of the world, and their failure is the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!

13 Now I speak to you?, the Gentiles. Therefore indeed inasmuch I am an apostle of the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,

14 if somehow I will provoke my own flesh to jealousy and will save some of them.

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will be the acceptance if not life out from the dead?

16 Now if the firstfruit is holy, also is the lump; and if the root is holy, also are the branches.

17 But if some 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 fatness of the root of the olive tree,

18 do not boast over the branches. But if you boast over them, you do not support the root, but the root you.

19 You will say, then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”

20 Rightly so: They were broken off by unbelief, but you have stood by faith. Do not be high-minded, but be afraid.

21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps He will not spare you.

22 Behold, therefore, the kindness and severity of God: severity indeed upon those having fallen, but kindness of God upon you, if you continue in the kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.