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Romans - ch 11 v 1 - 20
- I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
- God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture says in the history of Elias, how he pleads with God against Israel?
- Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thine altars; and I have been left alone, and they seek my life.
- But what says the divine answer to him? I have left to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed knee to Baal.
- Thus, then, in the present time also there has been a remnant according to election of grace.
- But if by grace, no longer of works: since otherwise grace is no more grace.
- What is it then? What Israel seeks for, that he has not obtained; but the election has obtained, and the rest have been blinded,
- according as it is written, God has given to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this day.
- And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:
- let their eyes be darkened not to see, and bow down their back alway.
- I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall there is salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy.
- But if their fall be the world's wealth, and their loss the wealth of the nations, how much rather their fulness?
- For I speak to you, the nations, inasmuch as I am apostle of nations, I glorify my ministry;
- if by any means I shall provoke to jealousy them which are my flesh, and shall save some from among them.
- For if their casting away be the world's reconciliation, what their reception but life from among the dead?
- Now if the first-fruit be holy, the lump also; and if the root be holy, the branches also.
- Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and thou, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,
- boast not against the branches; but if thou boast, it is not thou bearest the root, but the root thee.
- Thou wilt say then, The branches have been broken out in order that I might be grafted in.
- Right: they have been broken out through unbelief, and thou standest through faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:
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