Romans 11:21-36 ▼

21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, he certainly will not spare you, either.

22 Consider, then, the kindness and severity of God: his severity toward those who fell, but God's kindness toward you—if you continue receiving his kindness. Otherwise, you too will be cut off.

23 If the Jews do not persist in their unbelief, they will be grafted in again, because God is able to graft them in.

24 After all, if you were cut off from what is naturally a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much easier it will be for these natural branches to be grafted back into their own olive tree!

25 For I want to let you know about this secret, brothers, so that you will not claim to be wiser than you are: Stubbornness has come to part of Israel until the full number of the gentiles comes to faith.

26 In this way, all Israel will be saved, as it is written, |The Deliverer will come from Zion; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob.

27 This is my covenant with them when I take away their sins.|

28 As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake, but as far as election is concerned, they are loved for the sake of their ancestors.

29 For God's gifts and calling never change.

30 For just as you disobeyed God in the past but now have received his mercy because of their disobedience,

31 so they, too, have now disobeyed. As a result, they may receive mercy because of the mercy shown to you.

32 For God has locked all people in the prison of their own disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.

33 O how deep are God's riches, and wisdom, and knowledge! How unfathomable are his decisions and unexplainable are his ways!

34 Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has become his adviser?

35 Or who has given him something only to have him pay it back?|

36 For all things are from him, by him, and for him. Glory belongs to him forever! Amen.