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¹ I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.² God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah? how he pleads with God against Israel:³ Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have dug 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 left for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.⁵ Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.⁶ But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.⁷ What then? that which Israel seeks for, that he did not obtain; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened:⁸ according to as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very 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 bow down their back always.¹¹ I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? God forbid: but by their fall salvation [has come] to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.¹² Now if their fall, is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness.¹³ But I speak to you that are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my service;¹⁴ if by any means I may provoke to jealousy [those that are] my flesh, and may 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 And if the first fruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.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 root of the fatness of the olive tree;¹⁸ do not glory over the branches: but if you glory, it is not you that bear the root, but the root you.¹⁹ You will say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.²⁰ Very well; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don't be highminded, but fear:²¹ for if God didn't spare the natural branches, lest neither will he spare you.²² See then the goodness and severity of God: toward those that fell, severity; but toward you, God's goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also shall be cut off.²³ And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.²⁴ For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, 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 would not, brothers, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest you be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part has befallen Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;²⁶ and so all Israel shall be saved: even as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer; He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:²⁷ And this is my covenant to them, When I shall take away their sins.²⁸ As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.²⁹ For the gifts and the calling of God are not repented of.³⁰ For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,³¹ even so have these also now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they also may now obtain mercy.³² For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.

³³ O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing 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 of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him [be] the glory forever. Amen.