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11:1  I ask, then, has God rejected his people? Of course not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
11:2  God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says 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 is God’s response to him? “I have left for myself seven thousand men who have not knelt to Baal.”
11:5  So also at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
11:6  But if by grace, it is no longer because of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
11:7  What then? What Israel was seeking it did not attain, but the elect attained it; the rest were hardened,
11:8  as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes that should not see and ears that should not hear, down to this very day.”
11:9  And David says: “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;
11:10  let their eyes grow dim so that they may not see, and keep their backs bent forever.”
11:11  Hence I ask, did they stumble so as to fall? Of course not! But through their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make them jealous.
11:12  Now if their transgression is enrichment for the world, and if their diminished number is enrichment for the Gentiles, how much more their full number.
11:13  Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I glory in my ministry
11:14  in order to make my race jealous and thus save some of them.
11:15  For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
11:16  If the firstfruits are holy, so is the whole batch of dough; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
11:17  But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place and have come to share in the rich root of the olive tree,
11:18  do not boast against the branches. If you do boast, consider that you do not support the root; the root supports you.
11:19  Indeed you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”
11:20  That is so. They were broken off because of unbelief, but you are there because of faith. So do not become haughty, but stand in awe.
11:21  For if God did not spare the natural branches, [perhaps] he will not spare you either.
11:22  See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity toward those who fell, but God’s kindness to you, provided you remain in his kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off.
11:23  And they also, if they do not remain in 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 one, how much more will they who belong to it by nature be grafted back into their own olive tree.
11:25  I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not become wise [in] your own estimation: a hardening has come upon Israel in part, until the full number of the Gentiles comes in,
11:26  and thus all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The deliverer will come out of Zion, he will turn away godlessness from Jacob;
11:27  and this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins.”
11:28  In respect to the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but in respect to election, they are beloved because of the patriarchs.
11:29  For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.
11:30  Just as you once disobeyed God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience,
11:31  so they have now disobeyed in order that, by virtue of the mercy shown to you, they too may [now] receive mercy.
11:32  For God delivered all to disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.
11:33  Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments and how unsearchable 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 him anything that he may be repaid?”
11:36  For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.