Romans 11
1 So I say, Has God put his people on one side? Let there be no such thought. For I am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
I say then, Has God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God has not put away the people of his selection. Or have you no knowledge of what is said about Elijah in the holy Writings? how he says words to God against Israel,
God has not cast away his people which he foreknew. Know all of you not what the scripture says of Elijah? how he makes intercession to God against Israel saying,
3 Lord, they have put your prophets to death, and made waste your altars, and now I am the last, and they are searching for me to take away my life.
Lord, they have killed your prophets, and dug down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 But what answer does God make to him? I have still seven thousand men whose knees have not been bent to Baal.
But what says the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
5 In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace.
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.
And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
7 What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.
What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks for; but the election has obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
8 As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.
(According as it is written, God has given them the spirit (pneuma) of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear; ) unto this day.
9 And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment:
And David says, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompence unto them:
10 Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always.
11 So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy.
I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation has come unto the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now, if their fall is the wealth of the world, and their loss the wealth of the Gentiles, how much greater will be the glory when they are made full?
Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
13 But I say to you, Gentiles, in so far as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I make much of my position:
For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14 If in any way those who are of my flesh may be moved to envy, so that some of them may get salvation by me.
If by any means I may provoke to awaken jealousy in them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?
For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16 And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
For if the first-fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,
And if some of the branches be broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 Do not be uplifted in pride over the branches: because it is not you who are the support of the root, but it is by the root that you are supported.
Boast not against the branches. But if you boast, you bear not the root, but the root you.
19 You will say, Branches were broken off so that I might be put in.
You will say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
20 Truly, because they had no faith they were broken off, and you have your place by reason of your faith. Do not be lifted up in pride, but have fear;
Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:
21 For, if God did not have mercy on the natural branches, he will not have mercy on you.
For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not you.
22 See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also shall be cut off.
23 And they, if they do not go on without faith, will be united to the tree again, because God is able to put them in again.
And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut out of a field olive-tree, and against the natural use were united to a good olive-tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be united again with the olive-tree which was theirs?
For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;
For I would not, brethren, that all of you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest all of you should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And so all Israel will get salvation: as it is said in the holy Writings, There will come out of Zion the One who makes free; by him wrongdoing will be taken away from Jacob:
And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 And this is my agreement with them, when I will take away their sins.
For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
28 As far as the good news is in question, they are cut off from God on account of you, but as far as the selection is in question, they are loved on account of the fathers.
As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as concerning the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes.
29 Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed.
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as you, in time past, were not under the rule of God, but now have got mercy through their turning away,
For as all of you in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
31 So in the same way these have gone against the orders of God, so that by the mercy given to you they may now get mercy.
Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God has let them all go against his orders, so that he might have mercy on them all. (eleēsē g1653)
For God has concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. (eleēsē g1653)
33 O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
34 Who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord? or who has taken part in his purposes?
For who has known the mind of the Lord? or who has been his counsellor?
35 Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again?
Or who has first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
