Romans 11:5-36 ▼

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.

23 And even those, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

24 For if you were cut off out of the naturally wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural, be grafted into their own olive tree!

25 For I do not want you? to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you? may not be wise in yourselves: A hardening in part has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles may come in.

26 And thus all Israel will be saved, as it has been written: “The Delivering One will come out of Zion; He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.

27 And this is the covenant from Me to them, when I may take away their sins.”

28 For regarding the gospel, they are enemies on account of you?; but as regards election, beloved on account of the fathers.

29 For the gracious gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

30 For as you? once disobeyed God, but now received mercy by the disobedience of these,

31 so these also now disobeyed so that through your? mercy they also may now receive mercy.

32 For God closed up all in disobedience so that He may have mercy on all.

33 O, the depth of riches, both of wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

34 “For who knew the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor?”

35 Or “who first gave to Him, and it will be given back to him?”

36 For from Him and through Him and unto Him are all things. To Him be the glory to the ages! Amen.