rkjnt@Romans:11:1 @ I say then, Has God cast away his people? By no means. For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
rkjnt@Romans:11:2 @ God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah? how he appealed to God against Israel, saying,
rkjnt@Romans:11:3 @ Lord, they have killed your prophets, and pulled down your altars; and I alone am left, and they seek my life.
rkjnt@Romans:11:4 @ But what is the answer God gives to him? I have kept for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.
rkjnt@Romans:11:5 @ Even so, at this present time, there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
rkjnt@Romans:11:6 @ And if by grace, then it is no longer by works: otherwise grace is no longer grace.
rkjnt@Romans:11:7 @ What then? Israel has not obtained that which it sought; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
rkjnt@Romans:11:8 @ As it is written, God has given them the spirit of stupor, eyes that should not see, and ears that should not hear; down to this day.
rkjnt@Romans:11:9 @ And David says, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a retribution to them:
rkjnt@Romans:11:10 @ Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their backs forever.
rkjnt@Romans:11:11 @ I say then, Have they stumbled to fall beyond recovery? By no means: but rather through their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
rkjnt@Romans:11:12 @ Now if their fall means riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles; how much more will their fullness bring?
rkjnt@Romans:11:13 @ For I speak to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I make much of my ministry:
rkjnt@Romans:11:14 @ That I might provoke to envy my own people, and might save some of them.
rkjnt@Romans:11:15 @ For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what shall their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
rkjnt@Romans:11:16 @ For if the piece of dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole lump is also holy: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
rkjnt@Romans:11:17 @ And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them, and with them partake in the rich root of the olive tree;
rkjnt@Romans:11:18 @ Do not boast over the branches. If you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
rkjnt@Romans:11:20 @ That is true; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand only by faith. Do not be conceited, but fear:
rkjnt@Romans:11:21 @ For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you.
rkjnt@Romans:11:22 @ Therefore behold the kindness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, kindness, if you continue in his kindness: otherwise you shall also be cut off.
rkjnt@Romans:11:23 @ And they also, if they do not persist in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
rkjnt@Romans:11:24 @ For if you were cut off from an olive tree which is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted onto a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
rkjnt@Romans:11:25 @ Brethren, I would not have you be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits; that a hardening in part has happened to Israel, until the full number of Gentiles has come in.
rkjnt@Romans:11:26 @ And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, who shall banish ungodliness from Jacob:
rkjnt@Romans:11:27 @ For this is my covenant with them, when I shall take away their sins.
rkjnt@Romans:11:28 @ Concerning the gospel, they are enemies of God, for your sakes: but concerning election, they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.
rkjnt@Romans:11:30 @ For as you in times past have not obeyed God, yet have now obtained mercy because of their disobedience:
rkjnt@Romans:11:31 @ Even so they have now become disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they may now also obtain mercy.
rkjnt@Romans:11:32 @ For God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.
rkjnt@Romans:11:33 @ 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!
rkjnt@Romans:11:34 @ For who has known the mind of the Lord? or who has been his counsellor?
rkjnt@Romans:11:36 @ For from him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.