Romans 11:18-36

¹⁸do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee!

¹⁹Thou wilt say, then, 'The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;' right!

²⁰by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;

²¹for if God the natural branches did not spare — lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee.

²²Lo, then, goodness and severity of God — upon those indeed who fell, severity; and upon thee, goodness, if thou mayest remain in the goodness, otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off.

²³And those also, if they may not remain in unbelief, shall be graffed in, for God is able again to graff them in;

²⁴for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?

²⁵For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret — that ye may not be wise in your own conceits — that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;

²⁶and so all Israel shall be saved, according as it hath been written, 'There shall come forth out of Sion he who is delivering, and he shall turn away impiety from Jacob,

²⁷and this to them is the covenant from Me, when I may take away their sins.'

²⁸As regards, indeed, the good tidings, they are enemies on your account; and as regards the choice — beloved on account of the fathers;

²⁹for unrepented of are the gifts and the calling of God;

³⁰for as ye also once did not believe in God, and now did find kindness by the unbelief of these:

³¹so also these now did not believe, that in your kindness they also may find kindness;

³²for God did shut up together the whole to unbelief, that to the whole He might do kindness.

³³O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

³⁴for who did know the mind of the Lord? or who did become His counsellor?

³⁵or who did first give to Him, and it shall be given back to him again?

³⁶because of Him, and through Him, and to Him are the all things; to Him is the glory — to the ages. Amen.