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11:1  I ask then: did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
11:2  God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don’t you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah – how he appealed to God against Israel:
11:3  ‘Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me’?
11:4  And what was God’s answer to him? ‘I have reserved 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  And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.
11:7  What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain. The elect among them did, but the others were hardened,
11:8  as it is written: ‘God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see and ears that could 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 their backs be bent for ever.’
11:11  Again I ask: did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious.
11:12  But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their full inclusion bring!
11:13  I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry
11:14  in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them.
11:15  For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
11:16  If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
11:17  If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root,
11:18  do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
11:19  You will say then, ‘Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.’
11:20  Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble.
11:21  For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.
11:22  Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.
11:23  And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
11:24  After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
11:25  I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part 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: ‘The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
11:27  And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins.’
11:28  As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs,
11:29  for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable.
11:30  Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience,
11:31  so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you.
11:32  For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
11:33  Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!
11:34  ‘Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counsellor?’
11:35  ‘Who has ever given to God, that God should repay them?’
11:36  For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.