Romans:11:1-21

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* I say then , Hath God cast away his people ? God forbid . For I also am an Israelite , of the seed of Abraham , of the tribe of Benjamin . * God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew . Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias ? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel , saying , * Lord , they have killed thy prophets , and digged down thine altars ; and I am left alone , and they seek my life . * But what saith 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 . * Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of 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 is it no more grace : otherwise work is no more work . * What then ? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for ; but the election hath obtained it , and the rest were blinded * (According as it is written , God hath given them the spirit of slumber , eyes that they should not see , and ears that they should not hear ;) unto this day . * And David saith , Let their table be made a snare , and a trap , and a stumblingblock , and a recompence unto them : * Let their eyes be darkened , that they may not see , and bow down their back alway . * I say then , Have they stumbled that they should fall ? God forbid : but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles , for to provoke them to jealousy . * 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 fulness ? * For I speak to you Gentiles , inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles , I magnify mine office : * If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh , and might save some of them . * 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 ? * For if the firstfruit be holy , the lump is also holy : and if the root be holy , so are the branches . * And if some of the branches be broken off , and thou , being a wild olive tree , wert graffed in among them , and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree ; * Boast not against the branches . But if thou boast , thou bearest not the root , but the root thee . * Thou wilt say then , The branches were broken off , that I might be graffed in . * Well ; because of unbelief they were broken off , and thou standest by faith . Be not highminded , but fear : * For if God spared not the natural branches , take heed lest he also spare not thee .

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