Romans:11

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* I say then , has God cast away His people ? Certainly not ! For I also am an Israelite , of the seed of Abraham , of the tribe of Benjamin . * God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew . Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah , how he pleads with God against Israel , saying , * "LORD , they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars , and I alone am left , and they seek my life "? * But what does the divine response say to him ? "I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal ." * Even so then , at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace . * And if by grace , then it is no longer of works ; otherwise grace is no longer grace . But if it is of works , it is no longer grace ; otherwise work is no longer work . * What then ? Israel has not obtained what it seeks ; but the elect have obtained it , and the rest were blinded . * Just as it is written : "God has given them a spirit of stupor , Eyes that they should not see And ears that they should not hear , To this very day ." * And David says : "Let their table become a snare and a trap , A stumbling block and a recompense to them . * Let their eyes be darkened , so that they do not see , And bow down their back always ." * I say then , have they stumbled that they should fall ? Certainly not ! But through their fall , to provoke them to jealousy , salvation has come to the Gentiles . * Now if their fall is riches for the world , and their failure riches for the Gentiles , how much more their fullness ! * For I speak to you Gentiles ; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles , I magnify my ministry , * if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them . * For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world , what will their acceptance be but life from the dead ? * For if the firstfruit is holy , the lump is also holy ; and if the root is holy , so are the branches . * And if some of the branches were broken off , and you , being a wild olive tree , were grafted in among them , and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree , * do not boast against the branches . But if you do boast , remember that you do not support the root , but the root supports you . * You will say then , "Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in ." * Well said . Because of unbelief they were broken off , and you stand by faith . Do not be haughty , but fear . * For if God did not spare the natural branches , He may not spare you either . * Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God : on those who fell , severity ; but toward you , goodness , if you continue in His goodness . Otherwise you also will be cut off . * And they also , if they do not continue in unbelief , will be grafted in , for God is able to graft them in again . * For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature , and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree , how much more will these , who are natural branches , be grafted into their own olive tree ? * For I do not desire , brethren , that you should be ignorant of this mystery , lest you should be wise in your own opinion , that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in . * And so all Israel will be saved , as it is written : "The Deliverer will come out of Zion , And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob ; * For this is My covenant with them , When I take away their sins ." * Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake , but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers . * For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable . * For as you were once disobedient to God , yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience , * even so these also have now been disobedient , that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy . * For God has committed them all to disobedience , that He might have mercy on all . * Oh , the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out ! * "For who has known the mind of the LORD ? Or who has become His counselor ?" * "Or who has first given to Him And it shall be repaid to him ?" * For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things , to whom be glory forever . Amen .

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