Romans 11 — EMTV

Israel's Rejection Not Total

11Verse 1I say then, has God cast away His people? By no means! For I too am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.^{Verse 2}God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,^{Verse 3}“Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life”?^{Verse 4}But what is God's reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”^{Verse 5}So too then, at this present time, there is also a remnant according to the election of grace.^{Verse 6}And if by grace, it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.^{Verse 7}What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded.^{Verse 8}Just as it is written:
“God has given them a spirit of stupor,
eyes that they should not see,
and ears that they should not hear,
down to this very day.”^{Verse 9}And David says:
“Let their table become a snare and a trap,
a stumbling block and a recompense to them.
^{Verse 10}Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,
and their backs be bent forever!”

Israel's Rejection Not Permanent

^{Verse 11}I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? By no means! But by their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.^{Verse 12}But if their transgression is riches for the world, and their defeat is riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness be!^{Verse 13}For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,^{Verse 14}if somehow I may provoke to jealousy my fellow Jews, and thus save some of them.^{Verse 15}For if their casting away means reconciliation for the world, what will their acceptance be, if not life from the dead?^{Verse 16}For if the firstfruit is holy, so also the lump; and if the root is holy, so also the branches.^{Verse 17}But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,^{Verse 18}do not be arrogant towards the branches. But if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you that supports the root, but the root supports you.^{Verse 19}You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”^{Verse 20}That is true. By unbelief they were broken off, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear.^{Verse 21}For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps He may not spare you either.^{Verse 22}Behold then the kindness and severity of God: upon those that fell, severity; but upon you, kindness, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also shall be cut off.^{Verse 23}And they also, if they do not remain in unbelief, shall be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.^{Verse 24}For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more shall these, the natural ones, be grafted into their own olive tree?^{Verse 25}For I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers, lest you be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.^{Verse 26}And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written:
“The Deliverer shall come out of Zion,
and He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
^{Verse 27}For this is My covenant with them,
when I take away their sins.”^{Verse 28}As regards to the gospel, they are enemies for your sake; but as regards to election, they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.^{Verse 29}For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.^{Verse 30}For just as you once were disobedient to God, but now you were shown mercy through their disobedience,^{Verse 31}even so these now were disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also might be shown mercy.^{Verse 32}For God has consigned all to disobedience, that He might show mercy to all.^{Verse 33}Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and untraceable are His ways!^{Verse 34}“For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been His counselor?”
^{Verse 35}“Or who has first given to Him,
and it shall be repaid to him?”^{Verse 36}For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things; to Him be the glory forever! Amen.