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# Chapter 11
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1 I ask, then, has God rejected his people? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
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2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he pleads with God against Israel?
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3 Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars. I am the only one left, and they are trying to take my life!
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4 But what was God’s answer to him? I have left seven thousand for myself who have not bowed down to Baal.
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5 In the same way, then, there is also at the present time a remnant chosen by grace.
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6 Now if by grace, then it is not by works; otherwise grace ceases to be grace.
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7 What then? Israel did not find what it was looking for, but the elect did find it. The rest were hardened,
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8 as it is written,
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God gave them a spirit of stupor,
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eyes that cannot see
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and ears that cannot hear,
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to this day.
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9 And David says,
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Let their table become a snare and a trap,
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a pitfall and a retribution to them.
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10 Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,
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and their backs be bent continually.
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11 I ask, then, have they stumbled so as to fall? Absolutely not! On the contrary, by their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.
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12 Now if their transgression brings riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness bring!
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13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Insofar as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
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14 if I might somehow make my own people jealous and save some of them.
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15 For if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
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16 Now if the firstfruits are holy, so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.
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17 Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree,
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18 do not boast that you are better than those branches. But if you do boast—you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.
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19 Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”
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20 True enough; they were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but beware,
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21 because if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.
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22 Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness toward you—if you remain in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.
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23 And even they, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, because God has the power to graft them in again.
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24 For if you were cut off from your native wild olive tree and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these—the natural branches—be grafted into their own olive tree?
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25 I don’t want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you will not be conceited: A partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
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26 And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written,
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The Deliverer will come from Zion;
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he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
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27 And this will be my covenant with them
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when I take away their sins.
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28 Regarding the gospel, they are enemies for your advantage, but regarding election, they are loved because of the patriarchs,
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29 since God’s gracious gifts and calling are irrevocable.
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30 As you once disobeyed God but now have received mercy through their disobedience,
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31 so they too have now disobeyed, resulting in mercy to you, so that they also may now receive mercy.
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32 For God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that he may have mercy on all.
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33 Oh, the depth of the riches
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and the wisdom and the knowledge of God!
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How unsearchable his judgments
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and untraceable his ways!
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34 For who has known the mind of the Lord?
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Or who has been his counselor?
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35 And who has ever given to God,
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that he should be repaid?
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36 For from him and through him
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and to him are all things.
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To him be the glory forever. Amen. |