ROMANS 11:1-22

¹I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

²God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel,

³Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have digged down thine altars: and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

⁴But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have left for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.

⁵Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

⁶But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.

⁷What then? That which Israel seeketh for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened:

⁸according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day.

⁹And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, And a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them:

¹⁰Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, And bow thou down their back alway.

¹¹I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? God forbid: but by their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.

¹²Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

¹³But I speak to you that are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry:

¹⁴if by any means I may provoke to jealousy them that are my flesh, and may save some of them.

¹⁵For if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

¹⁶And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

¹⁷But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;

¹⁸glory not over the branches: but if thou gloriest, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee.

¹⁹Thou wilt say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

²⁰Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by thy faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

²¹for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare thee.

²²Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but toward thee, God’s goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.