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Romans 11
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see: and
bow down their back always.
I say then, have they so stumbled, that they should
fall? God forbid. But by their offence, salvation is
come to the Gentiles, that they may be emulous of them.
Now if the offence of them be the riches of the world,
and the diminution of them, the riches of the Gentiles;
how much more the fulness of them?
For I say to you, Gentiles: as long indeed as I am the
apostle of the Gentiles, I will honour my ministry,
If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who
are my flesh, and may save some of them.
For if the loss of them be the reconciliation of the
world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life
from the dead?
For if the firstfruit be holy, so is the lump also:
and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
And if some of the branches be broken, and thou, being
a wild olive, art ingrafted in them, and art made partaker
of the root, and of the fatness of the olive tree,
Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou
bearest not the root, but the root thee.
Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off, that
I might be grafted in.
Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But
thou standest by faith: be not highminded, but fear.
For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear
lest perhaps he also spare not thee.
See then the goodness and the severity of God: towards
them indeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards
thee, the goodness of God, if thou abide in goodness,
otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief,
shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in
again.
For if thou wert cut out of the wild olive tree, which
is natural to thee; and, contrary to nature, were grafted
into the good olive tree; how much more shall they that
are the natural branches, be grafted into their own
olive tree?
For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this
mystery, (lest you should be wise in your own conceits),
that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until
the fulness of the Gentiles should come in.
And so all Israel should be saved, as it is written:
There shall come out of Sion, he that shall deliver,
and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
And this is to them my covenant: when I shall take away
their sins.
As concerning the gospel, indeed, they are enemies for
your sake: but as touching the election, they are most
dear for the sake of the fathers.
For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.
For as you also in times past did not believe God, but
now have obtained mercy, through their unbelief;
So these also now have not believed, for your mercy,
that they also may obtain mercy.
For God hath concluded all in unbelief, that he may
have mercy on all.
O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge
of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and
how unsearchable his ways!
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath
been his counsellor?
Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall
be made him?
For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things:
to him be glory for ever. Amen. |