Romans 11
1 So I say, Has God put his people on one side? Let there be no such thought. For I am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
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 has not put away the people of his selection. Or have you no knowledge of what is said about Elijah in the holy Writings? how he says words to God against Israel,
God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture saith of Elias; how he calleth on God against Israel?
3 Lord, they have put your prophets to death, and made waste your altars, and now I am the last, and they are searching for me to take away my life.
Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they have dug down thy altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 But what answer does God make to him? I have still seven thousand men whose knees have not been bent to Baal.
But what saith the divine answer to him? I have left me seven thousand men, that have not bowed their knees to Baal.
5 In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace.
Even so then at this present time also, there is a remnant saved according to the election of grace.
6 But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.
And if by grace, it is not now by works: otherwise grace is no more grace.
7 What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.
What then? That which Israel sought, he hath not obtained: but the election hath obtained it; and the rest have been blinded.
8 As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.
As it is written: God hath given them the spirit of insensibility; eyes that they should not see; and ears that they should not hear, until this present day.
9 And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment:
And David saith: Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompense unto them.
10 Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see: and bow down their back always.
11 So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy.
I say then, have they so stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid. But by their offence, salvation is come to the Gentiles, that they may be emulous of them.
12 Now, if their fall is the wealth of the world, and their loss the wealth of the Gentiles, how much greater will be the glory when they are made full?
Now if the offence of them be the riches of the world, and the diminution of them, the riches of the Gentiles; how much more the fulness of them?
13 But I say to you, Gentiles, in so far as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I make much of my position:
For I say to you, Gentiles: as long indeed as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I will honour my ministry,
14 If in any way those who are of my flesh may be moved to envy, so that some of them may get salvation by me.
If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
15 For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?
For if the loss of them be the reconciliation of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16 And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
For if the firstfruit be holy, so is the lump also: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,
And if some of the branches be broken, and thou, being a wild olive, art ingrafted in them, and art made partaker of the root, and of the fatness of the olive tree,
18 Do not be uplifted in pride over the branches: because it is not you who are the support of the root, but it is by the root that you are supported.
Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19 You will say, Branches were broken off so that I might be put in.
Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
20 Truly, because they had no faith they were broken off, and you have your place by reason of your faith. Do not be lifted up in pride, but have fear;
Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith: be not highminded, but fear.
21 For, if God did not have mercy on the natural branches, he will not have mercy on you.
For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps he also spare not thee.
22 See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.
See then the goodness and the severity of God: towards them indeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards thee, the goodness of God, if thou abide in goodness, otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23 And they, if they do not go on without faith, will be united to the tree again, because God is able to put them in again.
And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut out of a field olive-tree, and against the natural use were united to a good olive-tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be united again with the olive-tree which was theirs?
For if thou wert cut out of the wild olive tree, which is natural to thee; and, contrary to nature, were grafted into the good olive tree; how much more shall they that are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;
For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, (lest you should be wise in your own conceits), that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in.
26 And so all Israel will get salvation: as it is said in the holy Writings, There will come out of Zion the One who makes free; by him wrongdoing will be taken away from Jacob:
And so all Israel should be saved, as it is written: There shall come out of Sion, he that shall deliver, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
27 And this is my agreement with them, when I will take away their sins.
And this is to them my covenant: when I shall take away their sins.
28 As far as the good news is in question, they are cut off from God on account of you, but as far as the selection is in question, they are loved on account of the fathers.
As concerning the gospel, indeed, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are most dear for the sake of the fathers.
29 Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed.
For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as you, in time past, were not under the rule of God, but now have got mercy through their turning away,
For as you also in times past did not believe God, but now have obtained mercy, through their unbelief;
31 So in the same way these have gone against the orders of God, so that by the mercy given to you they may now get mercy.
So these also now have not believed, for your mercy, that they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God has let them all go against his orders, so that he might have mercy on them all. (eleēsē g1653)
For God hath concluded all in unbelief, that he may have mercy on all. (eleēsē g1653)
33 O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.
O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!
34 Who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord? or who has taken part in his purposes?
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor?
35 Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again?
Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made him?
