Romans 11:1-22

¹So now I say, God did not reject His people, did He? Of course not! Why I myself am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin!

²God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel saying:

³“Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to take my life!”

⁴But what does the divine response say to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

⁵Even so then at this present time, there is a remnant according to an election by grace.

⁶Now if by grace, it is no longer from works; otherwise the grace is no longer grace. But if from works, it is no longer grace; otherwise the work is no longer work.

⁷What then? What Israel is seeking, this it did not obtain; but the election did obtain it, while the rest were dulled.

⁸Just as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that were not to see and ears that were not to hear, to this very day.”

⁹And David says: “Let their table be made into a snare and into a trap, into a stumbling block and into a retribution to them.

¹⁰Let their eyes be darkened so as not to see, and their back always be bowed down.”

¹¹So now I say, surely they have not stumbled so as to fall and stay fallen? Of course not! Rather, through their transgression the salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

¹²Now if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss riches for the nations, how much more their fulfillment!

¹³So I am speaking to you Gentiles (inasmuch as I am ‘apostle to the Gentiles’, I magnify my ministry),

¹⁴if somehow I can provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.

¹⁵For if their being rejected means reconciliation for the world, what will their restoration be but life from the dead?

¹⁶Now if the ‘firstfruit’ is holy, so is the whole batch; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

¹⁷Now if some of the branches were broken off, while you, being a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them, and with them have become a partaker of the root and the rich sap of the cultivated olive,

¹⁸do not boast against those branches (since if you do boast—it is not you who support the root but the root you).

¹⁹You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”

²⁰Granted. Because of unbelief they were broken off, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear!

²¹Because if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps He will not spare you either!

²²So consider the kindness and severity of God: upon those who fell, severity; but toward you, kindness, if you continue in that kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off.