Romans 11:2-20

²God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,

³“Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life”?

⁴But what is God's reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

⁵So too then, at this present time, there is also a remnant according to the election of grace.

⁶And if by grace, it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

⁷What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded.

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

⁹And David says: “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a recompense to them.

¹⁰Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever!”

¹¹I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? By no means! But by their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

¹²But if their transgression is riches for the world, and their defeat is riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness be!

¹³For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

¹⁴if somehow I may provoke to jealousy my fellow Jews, and thus save some of them.

¹⁵For if their casting away means reconciliation for the world, what will their acceptance be, if not life from the dead?

¹⁶For if the firstfruit is holy, so also the lump; and if the root is holy, so also the branches.

¹⁷But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,

¹⁸do not be arrogant towards the branches. But if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you that supports the root, but the root supports you.

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

²⁰That is true. By unbelief they were broken off, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear.