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11:1  I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
11:2  God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?
11:3  ‘Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars; I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.’
11:4  But what is the divine reply to him? ‘I have kept for myself seven thousand 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  But 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. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,
11:8  as it is written, ‘God gave them a sluggish spirit, eyes that would not see and ears that would 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 be darkened so that they cannot see, and keep their backs for ever bent.’
11:11  So I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall? By no means! But through their stumbling salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.
11:12  Now if their stumbling means riches for the world, and if their defeat means riches for Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!
11:13  Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry
11:14  in order to make my own people 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 part of the dough offered as first fruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; and if the root is holy, then the branches also are holy.
11:17  But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place to share the rich root of the olive tree,
11:18  do not vaunt yourselves over the branches. If you do vaunt yourselves, remember that it is not you that support the root, but the root that supports you.
11:19  You will say, ‘Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.’
11:20  That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand only through faith. So do not become proud, but stand in awe.
11:21  For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.
11:22  Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity towards those who have fallen, but God’s kindness towards you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
11:23  And even those of Israel, if they do not persist in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.
11:24  For if you have been 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 natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree.
11:25  So that you may not claim to be wiser than you are, brothers and sisters, I want you to understand this mystery: a hardening has come upon part of Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
11:26  And so all Israel will be saved; as it is written, ‘Out of Zion will come the Deliverer; he will banish ungodliness from Jacob.’
11:27  ‘And this is my covenant with them, when I take away their sins.’
11:28  As regards the gospel they are enemies of God for your sake; but as regards election they are beloved, for the sake of their ancestors;
11:29  for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
11:30  Just as you were once disobedient to God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience,
11:31  so they have now been disobedient in order that, by the mercy shown to you, they too may now receive mercy.
11:32  For God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that he may be merciful to all.
11:33  O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgements and how inscrutable his ways!
11:34  ‘For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counsellor?’
11:35  ‘Or who has given a gift to him, to receive a gift in return?’
11:36  For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever. Amen.