1. I say then, has God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the descendents of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2. God has not cast away his people whom he knew beforehand. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah? How he makes intercession to God against Israel, saying,
3. Lord, they have killed your prophets, and broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4. But what does the answer of God say to him? I have kept for 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 selection of grace.
6. And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it is of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
7. What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks; but the chosen have obtained it, and the rest were blinded
8. (According as it is written, God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes so that they would not see, and ears so that they would not hear;) until this day.
9. And David says, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompense to them:
10. Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bend their backs always.
11. I say then, Have they stumbled so that they would fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
12. Now if the fall of them is the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
13. For I speak to you Gentiles, considering that as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry:
14. If by any means I may provoke to emulation those who are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15. For if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16. For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17. And if some of the branches are broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18. Do not boast against the branches. But if you boast, you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
19. You will say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
20. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Be not high minded, but fear:
21. For if God did not spare the natural branches, be careful lest he also not spare you.
22. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also shall be cut off.
23. And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
24. For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
25. For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion; that blindness in part has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
26. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27. For this is my covenant to them, when I shall take away their sins.
28. Concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but concerning the selection, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.
29. For the gifts and calling of God will not be withdrawn.
30. For as you 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 has included 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 has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?
35. Or who has first given to him, and it shall be recompensed to him again?
36. For from him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
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