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| | Rom 11:1 | I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? May it never be! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
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| | Rom 11:2 | God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?
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| | Rom 11:3 | "Lord, they have killed Your prophets, they have torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life."
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| | Rom 11:4 | But what is the divine response to him? "I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."
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| | Rom 11:5 | In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God's gracious choice.
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| | Rom 11:6 | But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.
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| | Rom 11:7 | What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but those who were chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened;
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| | Rom 11:8 | just as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, Eyes to see not and ears to hear not, Down to this very day."
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| | Rom 11:9 | And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, And a stumbling block and a retribution to them.
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| | Rom 11:10 | "Let their eyes be darkened to see not, And bend their backs forever."
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| | Rom 11:11 | I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.
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| | Rom 11:12 | Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fulfillment be!
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| | Rom 11:13 | But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
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| | Rom 11:14 | if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow countrymen and save some of them.
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| | Rom 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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| | Rom 11:16 | If the first piece of dough is holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, the branches are too.
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| | Rom 11:17 | But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree,
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| | Rom 11:18 | do not be arrogant toward the branches; but if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you.
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| | Rom 11:19 | You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in."
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| | Rom 11:20 | Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear;
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| | Rom 11:21 | for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either.
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| | Rom 11:22 | Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God's kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
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| | Rom 11:23 | And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
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| | Rom 11:24 | For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree?
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| | Rom 11:25 | For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery--so that you will not be wise in your own estimation--that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;
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| | Rom 11:26 | and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, "The Deliverer will come from Zion, He will remove ungodliness from Jacob."
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| | Rom 11:27 | "This is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins."
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| | Rom 11:28 | From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of God's choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers;
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| | Rom 11:29 | for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
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| | Rom 11:30 | For just as you once were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of their disobedience,
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| | Rom 11:31 | so these also now have been disobedient, that because of the mercy shown to you they also may now be shown mercy.
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| | Rom 11:32 | For God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all.
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| | Rom 11:33 | Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!
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| | Rom 11:34 | For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor?
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| | Rom 11:35 | Or who has first given to Him that it might be paid back to him again?
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| | Rom 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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| Scripture quotations taken from the NASB. |
