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[1] I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. [2] God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel: [3] Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. [4] But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have left for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal. [5] Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. [6] But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. [7] What then? That which Israel seeketh for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened: [8] according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day. [9] And David saith,
Let their table be made a snare, and a trap,
And a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them:
[10] Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see,
And bow thou down their back always.
[11] I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? God forbid: but by their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. [12] Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? [13] But I speak to you that are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry; [14] if by any means I may provoke to jealousy them that are my flesh, and may save some of them. [15] For if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? [16] And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches. [17] But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree; [18] glory not over the branches: but if thou gloriest, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee. [19] Thou wilt say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. [20] Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by thy faith. Be not highminded, but fear: [21] for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare thee. [22] Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but toward thee, God’s goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. [23] And they also, if they continue not in their unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again. [24] For if thou wast cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and wast grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
[25] For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in; [26] and so all Israel shall be saved: even as it is written,
There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer;
He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
[27] And this is my covenant unto them,
When I shall take away their sins.
[28] As touching the gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake. [29] For the gifts and the calling of God are not repented of. [30] For as ye in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, [31] even so have these also now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they also may now obtain mercy. [32] For God hath shut up all unto disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.
[33] O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out! [34] For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? [35] or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? [36] For of him, and through him, and unto him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever. Amen.
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