Romans:11

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* 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 . * 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 , * Lord , they have killed your prophets , and dug down yours altars ; and I am left alone , and they seek my life . * 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 . * 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 it is no more grace : otherwise work is no more work . * What then ? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks for ; but the election has obtained it , and the rest were blinded . * (According as it is written , God has given them the spirit (o . pneuma ) of slumber , eyes that they should not see , and ears that they should not hear ;) unto this day . * And David says , Let their table be made a snare , and a trap , and a stumbling block , and a recompence unto them : * Let their eyes be darkened , that they may not see , and bow down their back always . * 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 . * 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 ? * 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 awaken jealousy in 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 first-fruit 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 you , being a wild olive tree , were grafted in among them , and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree ; * Boast not against the branches . But if you boast , you bear not the root , but the root you . * You will say then , The branches were broken off , that I might be grafted in . * Well ; because of unbelief they were broken off , and you stand by faith . Be not high-minded , but fear : * For if God spared not the natural branches , take heed lest he also spare not you . * 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 . * And they also , if they abide not still in unbelief , shall 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 good olive tree : how much more shall these , which be the natural branches , be grafted into their own olive tree ? * 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 . * 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 : * For this is my covenant unto them , when I shall take away their sins . * As concerning the gospel , they are enemies for your sakes : but as concerning the election , they are beloved for the father 's sakes . * For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance . * For as all of you in times past have not believed God , yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief : * Even so have these also now not believed , that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy . * For God has concluded them all in unbelief , that he might have mercy upon all . * 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 ! * For who has known the mind of the Lord ? or who has been his counsellor ? * Or who has first given to him , and it shall be recompensed unto him again ? * For of him , and through him , and to him , are all things : to whom be glory for ever . Amen .

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