Romans 11:1-22

¹Therefore I say, Whether God hath put away his people? God forbid. For I am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the lineage of Benjamin.

²God hath not put away his people, which he before-knew. Whether ye know not, what the scripture saith in Elijah? How he prayeth God against Israel,

³Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they have under-delved thine altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

⁴But what saith God’s answer to him? I have left to me seven thousands of men, that have not bowed their knees before Baal.

⁵So therefore also in this time, the remnants be made safe, by the choosing of the grace of God.

⁶And if it be by the grace of God, it is not now of works; else grace is not now grace.

⁷What then? Israel hath not gotten this that he sought, but election hath gotten; and the others be blinded.

⁸As it is written, God gave to them a spirit of compunction, eyes that they see not, and ears, that they hear not, into this day.

⁹And David saith, Be the board of them made into a snare before them, and into catching, and into cause of stumbling, and into yielding again to them.

¹⁰Be the eyes of them made dark, that they see not; and bow thou down always the back of them.

¹¹Therefore I say, Whether they offended so, that they should fall down? God forbid. But by the guilt of them health is made to heathen men, that they pursue them.

¹²That if the guilt of them be riches of the world, and the making less or the diminishing of them be riches of heathen men, how much more the plenty of them?

¹³But I say to you, heathen men, for as long as I am apostle of heathen men, I shall honour my ministry or my service,

¹⁴if in any manner I stir my flesh for to follow, and that I make some of them safe.

¹⁵For if the loss of them is the reconciling of the world, what is the taking up of them, but life of dead men? or but life to dead?

¹⁶For if a little part of that that is tasted be holy, the whole gobbet is holy; and if the root is holy, also the branches.

¹⁷What if any of the branches be broken, when thou were a wild olive tree, art grafted or art set in among them, and art made fellow of the root, and of the fatness of the olive tree,

¹⁸do not thou have glory against the branches. For if thou gloriest, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

¹⁹Therefore thou sayest, The branches be broken, that I be grafted in or I be inset.

²⁰Well, for unbelief the branches be broken; but thou standest by faith. Do not thou understand or savour high things, but dread thou,

²¹for if God spared not the kindly branches, see thou lest peradventure he spare not thee.

²²Therefore see the goodness, and the fierceness of God; yea, the fierceness into them that fell down, but the goodness of God into thee, if thou dwellest in goodness, else also thou shalt be cut down.