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11:1  So I ask, has God repudiated · · his people? By no means! · For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
11:2  God has not repudiated · · his people whom he foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against · Israel?
11:3  “Lord, they have killed · your prophets, they have torn down · your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking · my life.”
11:4  But what was the divine reply saying to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
11:5  So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
11:6  And if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise · grace would no longer be grace.
11:7  What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking, but the elect obtained it. The · rest were hardened,
11:8  as it is written, “God gave them · a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.”
11:9  And David says, “May their table become · a snare and a trap, · a stumbling block and a retribution for them.
11:10  May their eyes be darkened · so they cannot see, and keep · their backs constantly bent.”
11:11  So I ask, did they stumble so as to fall? By no means! But because of their transgression · salvation has come to the Gentiles so as to make Israel jealous.
11:12  Now if · their transgression means riches for the world and · their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will · their full inclusion mean!
11:13  I am speaking to you · · Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in · my ministry,
11:14  if somehow I could provoke my own · countrymen to jealousy and save some of them.
11:15  For if · their rejection leads to the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
11:16  If · the dough offered as first fruits is holy, so also is the whole lump; and if the root is holy, so also are the branches.
11:17  But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and you now share in the nourishing root · of the olive tree,
11:18  do not become arrogant toward the branches. But if you do, consider this: it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.
11:19  Then you will say, “The branches were broken off so I could be grafted in.”
11:20  That is true. They were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be proud, but stand in awe.
11:21  For if · God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you either.
11:22  Consider therefore the kindness and the severity of God—severity to those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.
11:23  And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able · to graft them in again.
11:24  For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into · their own olive tree?
11:25  For I do not want you to be uninformed, my brothers, of · this mystery—so that you may not be wise in your own conceits—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
11:26  And in this way all Israel will be saved: as it is written, “Out of Zion will come the Deliverer; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob.”
11:27  “And this will be my covenant with them, · when I take away · their sins.”
11:28  In regard to the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but in regard to · election they are dearly loved for the sake of their forefathers.
11:29  For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
11:30  For just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,
11:31  so · they at the present time have been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may now receive mercy.
11:32  For God has consigned · · all to disobedience so that he may show mercy to · all.
11:33  O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are · his judgments and how inscrutable · his ways!
11:34  For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?
11:35  Or who has given to God that God must pay him back?
11:36  For from him and through him and to him are · all things. To him be · glory for all time! Amen.