Romans 11:1–32

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.⇇

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,⇇

↦Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and ↦digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.⇇

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.⇇

Even so then ↦at this present time also there is a remnant according to the ↦election of grace.⇇

↦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.⇇

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

(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.⇇

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

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

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.⇇

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?⇇

For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am ↦the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:⇇

If ↦by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are ↦my flesh, and ↦might save some of them.⇇

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?⇇

For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: ↦and if the root be holy, so are the branches.⇉⇇

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;⇇

↦Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, ↦thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.⇇

Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, ↦that I might be graffed in.⇇

↦Well; ↦because of unbelief they were broken off, ↦and thou standest by faith. ↦Be not highminded, ↦but fear:⇇

For ↦if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.⇇

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.⇇

And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.⇉⇇

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?⇉⇇

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.⇇

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:⇇

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

As concerning the gospel, they ↦are enemies for your sakes: ↦but as touching the election, they ↦are beloved for the fathers' sakes.⇇

For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.⇉⇇

For ↦as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now ↦obtained mercy through their unbelief:⇇

Even so have these also now not ↦believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.⇇

For ↦God hath ↦concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.⇇