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Romans - Chapter 11

	Rom 11:1	I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
	Rom 11:2	God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?
	Rom 11:3	"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life."
	Rom 11:4	But what is God's reply to him? "I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."
	Rom 11:5	So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
	Rom 11:6	But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
	Rom 11:7	What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,
	Rom 11:8	as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day."
	Rom 11:9	And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;
	Rom 11:10	"let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and bend their backs forever."
	Rom 11:11	So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.
	Rom 11:12	Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion [fn] mean!
	Rom 11:13	Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry
	Rom 11:14	in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.
	Rom 11:15	For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
	Rom 11:16	If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
	Rom 11:17	But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root [fn] of the olive tree,
	Rom 11:18	do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.
	Rom 11:19	Then you will say, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in."
	Rom 11:20	That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but stand in awe.
	Rom 11:21	For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
	Rom 11:22	Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.
	Rom 11:23	And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.
	Rom 11:24	For if you were 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, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.
	Rom 11:25	Lest you be wise in your own conceits, I want you to understand this mystery, brothers: [fn] a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
	Rom 11:26	And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, "The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob";
	Rom 11:27	"and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins."
	Rom 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 forefathers.
	Rom 11:29	For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
	Rom 11:30	Just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,
	Rom 11:31	so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may now [fn] receive mercy.
	Rom 11:32	For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.
	Rom 11:33	Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
	Rom 11:34	"For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?"
	Rom 11:35	"Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?"
	Rom 11:36	For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

ESV Footnotes:

(11:12) Greek their fullness
(11:17) Greek root of richness; some manuscripts richness
(11:25) Or brothers and sisters
(11:31) Some manuscripts omit now

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