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| 11:1 |
I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
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| 11:2 |
God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?
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| 11:3 |
"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars; I alone am left, and they are seeking my life."
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| 11:4 |
But what is the divine reply to him?"I have kept for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal."
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| 11:5 |
So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
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| 11:6 |
But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
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| 11:7 |
What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,
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| 11:8 |
as it is written, "God gave them a sluggish spirit, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day."
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| 11:9 |
And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;
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| 11:10 |
let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and keep their backs forever bent."
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| 11:11 |
So I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall? By no means! But through their stumbling salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.
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| 11:12 |
Now if their stumbling means riches for the world, and if their defeat means riches for Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!
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| 11:13 |
Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry
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| 11:14 |
in order to make my own people jealous, and thus save some of them.
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| 11:15 |
For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead!
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| 11:16 |
If the part of the dough offered as first fruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; and if the root is holy, then the branches also are holy.
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| 11:17 |
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place to share the rich root of the olive tree,
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| 11:18 |
do not boast over the branches. If you do boast, remember that it is not you that support the root, but the root that supports you.
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| 11:19 |
You will say, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in."
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| 11:20 |
That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand only through faith. So do not become proud, but stand in awe.
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| 11:21 |
For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.
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| 11:22 |
Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness toward you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
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| 11:23 |
And even those of Israel, if they do not persist in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.
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| 11:24 |
For if you have been cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree.
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| 11:25 |
So that you may not claim to be wiser than you are, brothers and sisters, I want you to understand this mystery: a hardening has come upon part of Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
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| 11:26 |
And so all Israel will be saved; as it is written, "Out of Zion will come the Deliverer; he will banish ungodliness from Jacob."
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| 11:27 |
"And this is my covenant with them, when I take away their sins."
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| 11:28 |
As regards the gospel they are enemies of God for your sake; but as regards election they are beloved, for the sake of their ancestors;
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| 11:29 |
for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
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| 11:30 |
Just as you were once disobedient to God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience,
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| 11:31 |
so they have now been disobedient in order that, by the mercy shown to you, they too may now receive mercy.
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| 11:32 |
For God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that he may be merciful to all.
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| 11:33 |
O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
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| 11:34 |
"For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?"
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| 11:35 |
"Or who has given a gift to him, to receive a gift in return?"
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| 11:36 |
For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen.
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