Romans 11
1 I say then, did God cast away His people? Let it not be! For I am also an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin:
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.
2 God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have you not known—in Elijah—what the Writing says? How he pleads with God concerning Israel, saying,
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,
3 “LORD, they killed Your prophets, and they dug down Your altars, and I was left alone, and they seek my life”;
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.
4 but what does the divine answer say to him? “I left to Myself seven thousand men who did not bow a knee to Ba‘al.”
But what answer does God make to him? I have still seven thousand men whose knees have not been bent to Baal.
5 So then also in the present time there has been a remnant according to the [divine] selection of grace;
In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace.
6 and if by grace, no longer of works, otherwise grace becomes no longer grace; and if of works, it is no longer grace, otherwise work is no longer work.
But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.
7 What then? What Israel seeks after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen obtained, and the rest were hardened,
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.
8 according as it has been written: “God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, to this very day,”
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.
9 and David says, “Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a repayment to them;
And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment:
10 let their eyes be darkened—not to behold, and You always bow down their back.”
Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.
11 I say then, did they stumble that they might fall? Let it not be! But by their fall the salvation [is] to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;
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.
12 and if their fall [is] the riches of [the] world, and their diminishment the riches of nations, how much more their fullness?
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?
13 For to you I speak—to the nations—inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, I glorify my ministry;
But I say to you, Gentiles, in so far as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I make much of my position:
14 if I will arouse my own flesh to jealousy by any means, and will save some of them,
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.
15 for if the casting away of them [is] a reconciliation of the world, what the reception—if not life out of the dead?
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?
16 And if the first-fruit [is] holy, the lump also; and if the root [is] holy, the branches also.
And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 And if certain 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 root and of the fatness of the olive tree—
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,
18 do not boast against the branches; and if you boast, you do not bear the root, but the root you!
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.
19 You will say, then, “The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in”; right!
You will say, Branches were broken off so that I might be put in.
20 By unbelief they were broken off, and you have stood by faith; do not be high-minded, but be fearing;
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;
21 for if God did not spare the natural branches—lest perhaps He also will not spare you.
For, if God did not have mercy on the natural branches, he will not have mercy on you.
22 Behold, then, goodness and severity of God—on those indeed who fell, severity; and on you, goodness, if you may remain in the goodness, otherwise, you also will be cut off.
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.
23 And those also, if they may not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again;
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.
24 for if you, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, were cut out, and contrary to nature, were grafted into a good olive tree, how much rather will they, who [are] according to nature, be grafted into their own olive tree?
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?
25 For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brothers, of this secret—that you may not be wise in your own conceits—that hardness in part to Israel has happened until the fullness of the nations may come in;
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;
26 and so all Israel will be saved, according as it has been written: “There will come forth out of Zion He who is delivering, and He will turn away impiety from Jacob,
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:
27 and this to them [is] the covenant from Me when I may take away their sins.”
And this is my agreement with them, when I will take away their sins.
28 As regards, indeed, the good tidings, [they are] enemies on your account; and as regards the [divine] selection—beloved on account of the fathers;
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.
29 for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable;
Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed.
30 for as you also once did not believe in God, and now found kindness by the unbelief of these,
For as you, in time past, were not under the rule of God, but now have got mercy through their turning away,
31 so also these now did not believe, that in your kindness they also may find kindness;
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.
32 for God shut up together the whole to unbelief, that to the whole He might do kindness. (eleēsē g1653)
For God has let them all go against his orders, so that he might have mercy on them all. (eleēsē g1653)
33 O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
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.
34 For who knew the mind of the LORD? Or who became His counselor?
Who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord? or who has taken part in his purposes?
35 Or who first gave to Him, and it will be given back to him again?
Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again?
