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title: Romans 11
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createdAt: 2024-09-11T01:26:33.201Z
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**1 **I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, *of* the tribe of Benjamin. **2 **God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, **3 **Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. **4 **But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to *the image of* Baal. **5 **Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. **6 **And if by grace, then *is it* no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if *it be* of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

**7 **What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded

**8 **(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.

**9 **And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:

**10 **Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

**11 **I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but *rather* through their fall salvation *is come* unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. **12 **Now if the fall of them *be* the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? **13 **For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: **14 **If by any means I may provoke to emulation *them which are* my flesh, and might save some of them. **15 **For if the casting away of them *be* the reconciling of the world, what *shall* the receiving *of them be*, but life from the dead? **16 **For if the firstfruit *be* holy, the lump *is* also *holy*: and if the root *be* holy, so *are* the branches.

**17 **And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; **18 **Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. **19 **Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. **20 **Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: **21 **For if God spared not the natural branches, *take heed* lest he also spare not thee. **22 **Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in *his* goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. **23 **And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. **24 **For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural *branches*, be graffed into their own olive tree?

**25 **For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

**26 **And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

**27 **For this *is* my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

**28 **As concerning the gospel, *they are* enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, *they are* beloved for the fathers' sakes. **29 **For the gifts and calling of God *are* without repentance. **30 **For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: **31 **Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. **32 **For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

**33 **O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable *are* his judgments, and his ways past finding out! **34 **For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counseller? **35 **Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? **36 **For of him, and through him, and to him, *are* all things: to whom *be* glory for ever. Amen.