Rom 11
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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.
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God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or know you not what the scripture
says of Elijah? how he pleads with God against Israel:
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Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have dug down your altars; and I am left
alone, and they seek my life.
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But what says the answer of God to him? I have left for myself seven thousand men,
who have not bowed the knee to Baal.
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Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election
of grace.
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But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.
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What then? that which Israel seeks for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained
it, and the rest were hardened:
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according 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.
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And David says, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, And a stumbling block,
and a recompense to them:
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Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, And bow you down their back always.
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I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? God forbid: but by their fall salvation
[is come] to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
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Now if their fall, is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles;
how much more their fullness?
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But I speak to you that are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles,
I glorify my ministry;
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if by any means I may provoke to jealousy [them that are] my flesh, and may save some
of them.
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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?
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And if the first fruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the
branches.
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But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted
in among them, and did become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the
olive tree;
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glory not over the branches: but if you glory, it is not you that bear the root, but
the root you.
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You will say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
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Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Be not
high-minded, but fear:
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for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
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Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but
toward you, God`s goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also shall
be cut off.
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And they also, if they continue not in their unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God
is able to graft them in again.
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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?
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For I would not, brethren, 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 be come in;
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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:
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And this is my covenant to them, When I shall take away their sins.
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As touching the gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election,
they are beloved for the fathers` sake.
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For the gifts and the calling of God are not repented of.
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For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their
disobedience,
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even so have these also now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they
also may now obtain mercy.
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For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.
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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!
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For who has known the mind of the Lord? or who has been his counselor?
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or who has first given to him, and it shall be recompensed to him again?
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For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him [be] the glory for
ever. Amen.