1 God Has Not Rejected Israel I say then, has God rejected His people? May it never be! For I too am an Israelite, a seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 11:2In OT, Yahweh, cf. Ps 94:14 God has not rejectedHis peoplewhom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says inthe passage aboutElijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?
3 “Lord,they have killedYour prophets,they have torn downYour altars,andIalone am left,and they are seeking my life.”
4 But what does the divine response say to him? “Ihave leftfor Myselfseven thousand men who have not bowed the knee toBaal.”
5 In this way then, at the present time, a remnant according toGod’s 11:5Lit choice of grace gracious choice has also come to be.
6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.
7 What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but the chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened;
8 just as it is written,“ 11:8 In OT, Yahweh, cf. Is 29:10 God gave them a spirit of stupor,Eyes to see not and ears to hear not,Down to this very day.”
9 And David says,“Let their table become a snare and a trap,And a stumbling block and a retribution to them.
10 “Let their eyes be darkened to see not,And bend their backs forever.”Gentiles Grafted In
11 I say then, did they stumble so as to fall? May it never be! But by their transgression salvationhas cometo the Gentiles, to make them jealous.
12 Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their 11:12Or fulfillment fullness be!
13 But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
14 if somehow I might move to jealousy my 11:14Lit flesh fellow countrymen and save some of them.
15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what willtheiracceptance be but life from the dead?
16 And if the first pieceof doughis holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, the branches are too.
17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a partaker with them of the 11:17Lit root of the fatness rich root of the olive tree,
18 do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast againstthem,remember thatit is not you who supports the root, but the rootsupportsyou.
19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”
20 Quite right! They were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be haughty, but fear,
21 for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either.
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.
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.
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 naturalbranchesbe grafted into their own olive tree?All Israel Will Be Saved
25 For I do not want you, brothers, 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;
26 and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written,“TheDeliverer will come fromZion,He will remove ungodliness fromJacob.”
27 “And this is 11:27 Lit the covenant from Me My covenant with them,WhenItake away their sins.”
28 11:28Lit According to the gospel From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but 11:28Lit according to the election from the standpoint ofGod’schoice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers;
29 for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
30 For just as you once were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of their disobedience,
31 so these also now have been disobedient, that because of the mercy shown to you they also may now be shown mercy.
32 For God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all.
33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!
34 Forwho has known the mind of theLord,or who becameHis counselor?
35 Orwho has first given toHim 11:35Lit and it will be paid back that it might be repaid to him?
36 For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Himbethe glory 11:36Lit to the ages forever. Amen.