Romans 11:1-22 ▼

1 I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For I also am an Israelite, of [the] seed of Abraham, of [the] tribe of Benjamin.

2 God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture says in [the history of] Elias, how he pleads with God against Israel?

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

4 But what says the divine answer to him? I have left to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed knee to Baal.

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

6 But if by grace, no longer of works: since [otherwise] grace is no more grace.

7 What [is it] then? What Israel seeks for, that he has not obtained; but the election has obtained, and the rest have been blinded,

8 according as it is written, God has given to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this day.

9 And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:

10 let their eyes be darkened not to see, and bow down their back alway.

11 I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall [there is] salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy.

12 But if their fall [be the] world's wealth, and their loss [the] wealth of [the] nations, how much rather their fulness?

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

14 if by any means I shall provoke to jealousy [them which are] my flesh, and shall save some from among them.

15 For if their casting away [be the] world's reconciliation, what [their] reception but life from among [the] dead?

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

17 Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and thou, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,

18 boast not against the branches; but if thou boast, [it is] not thou bearest the root, but the root thee.

19 Thou wilt say then, The branches have been broken out in order that I might be grafted in.

20 Right: they have been broken out through unbelief, and thou standest through faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:

21 if God indeed has not spared the natural branches; lest it might be he spare not thee either.

22 Behold then [the] goodness and severity of God: upon them who have fallen, severity; upon thee goodness of God, if thou shalt abide in goodness, since [otherwise] thou also wilt be cut away.