Romans 11:12-34

¹²And, if their falling away has enriched the world, and their failure has enriched the Gentiles, how much more will result from their full restoration!

¹³But I am speaking to you who were Gentiles.

¹⁴Being myself an apostle to the Gentiles, I exalt my office, in the hope that I may stir my countrymen to rivalry, and so save some of them.

¹⁵For, if their being cast aside has meant the reconciliation of the world, what will their reception mean, but life from the dead?

¹⁶If the first handful of dough in holy, so is the whole mass; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

¹⁷Some, however, of the branches were broken off, and you, who were only a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and came to share with them the root which is the source of the richness of the cultivated olive.

¹⁸Yet do not exult over the other branches. But, if you do exult over them, remember that you do not support the root, but that the root supports you.

¹⁹But branches, you will say, were broken off, so that I might be grafted in.

²⁰True; it was because of their want of faith that they were broken off, and it is because of your faith that you are standing. Do not think too highly of yourself, but beware.

²¹For, if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

²²See, then, both the goodness and the severity of God — his severity towards those who fell, and his goodness towards you, provided that you continue to confide in that goodness; otherwise you, also, will be cut off.

²³And they, too, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in; for God has it in his power to graft them in again.

²⁴If you were cut off from your natural stock — a wild olive — and were grafted, contrary to the course of nature, on a good olive, much more will they — the natural branches — be grafted back into their parent tree.

²⁵My friends, so that you don't think too highly of yourselves, I want you to recognize the truth, hitherto hidden, that the callousness which has come over Israel is only partial, and will continue only until the whole Gentile world has been gathered in.

²⁶And then all Israel will be saved. As scripture says — ‘From Zion will come the Deliverer; he will banish ungodliness from Jacob.

²⁷And they will see the fulfillment of my covenant, when I have taken away their sins.’

²⁸From the standpoint of the good news, the Jews are God's enemies for your sake; but from the standpoint of God's selection, they are dear to him for the sake of the Patriarchs.

²⁹For God never regrets his gifts or his call.

³⁰Just as you at one time were disobedient to him, but have now found mercy in the day of their disobedience;

³¹so, too, they have now become disobedient in your day of mercy, in order that they also in their turn may now find mercy.

³²For God has given all alike over to disobedience, that to all alike he may show mercy.

³³Oh! The unfathomable wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments, how untraceable his ways! Yes —

³⁴Who has ever comprehended the mind of the Lord? Who has ever become his counsellor?