Romans 11:2-20

²God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,

³Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thy altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

⁴But what saith the answer of God to him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.

⁵Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

⁶And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

⁷What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.

⁸(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) to this day.

⁹And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompense to them:

¹⁰Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always.

¹¹I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? By no means: but rather through their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

¹²Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?

¹³For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office:

¹⁴If by any means I may incite to emulation them who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

¹⁵For if the rejection of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be , but life from the dead?

¹⁶For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy : and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

¹⁷And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive-tree, art ingrafted among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive-tree;

¹⁸Boast not against the branches. But if thou boastest, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

¹⁹Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be ingrafted.

²⁰Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear: