Romans 11 I ask, then did God reject His people? Never may it be! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

BLB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ I ask, then did God reject His people? Never may it be! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. ² God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel: ³ “Lord, they have killed Your prophets, they have torn down Your altars, and I alone have been left, and they are seeking my life”? ⁴ But what was the divine answer spoken to him? “I have left to Myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” ⁵ So then also, in the present time, there has been a remnant according to the election of grace. ⁶ And if by grace, it is no longer from works; otherwise grace no longer would be grace. ⁷ What then? What Israel is seeking, this it has not obtained, but the elect obtained it. And the rest were hardened, ⁸ as it has been written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this very day.” ⁹ And David says: “Let their table be for a snare and for a trap, and for a stumbling block and for a retribution to them. ¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened not to see, and their backs bent over forever.” ¹¹ I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? Never may it be! But in their trespass is salvation to the Gentiles, so as to provoke them to jealousy. ¹² But if their trespass is the riches of the world, and their failure is the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness! ¹³ Now I am speaking to you the Gentiles. Therefore indeed inasmuch as I am apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, ¹⁴ if at all I shall provoke to jealousy my own flesh, and shall save some of them. ¹⁵ For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be if not life out from the dead? ¹⁶ Now if the firstfruit is holy, also the lump; and if the root is holy, also the branches. ¹⁷ But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and have become a fellow-partaker of the fatness of the root of the olive tree, ¹⁸ do not boast over the branches. And if you boast against them, you do not support the root, but the root you. ¹⁹ You will say, then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.” ²⁰ Rightly so: They were broken off by the unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be high minded, but be afraid. ²¹ For if God did not at all spare the natural branches, neither will He spare you. ²² Behold therefore the kindness and severity of God: severity indeed upon those having fallen, but kindness of God toward you, if you continue in the kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off. ²³ And even they, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. ²⁴ For if you were cut off out of the naturally wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural, be grafted into the own olive tree! ²⁵ For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you may not be wise in yourselves: A hardening in part has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles may come in. ²⁶ And so all Israel will be saved, as it has been written: “The One Delivering will come out of Zion, He will remove ungodliness from Jacob. ²⁷ And this is the covenant from Me to them, when I shall take away their sins.” ²⁸ For as regards the gospel, they are enemies on account of you; but as regards election, beloved on account of the patriarchs. ²⁹ For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. ³⁰ For just as you once were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy by the disobedience of these, ³¹ so these also now have been disobedient for your mercy, so that they also now may have mercy shown them. ³² For God has bound up all in disobedience, that He may show mercy to all. ³³ O, the depth of riches, both of wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways! ³⁴ “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been His counselor?” ³⁵ “Or who has first given to Him, and it will be recompensed to him?” ³⁶ For from Him and through Him and unto Him are all things. To Him be the glory to the ages! Amen.