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Romans - ch 11 v 21 - 36
- for if God didn't spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
- See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
- They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
- 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 will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
- For I don't desire you to be ignorant, brothers,1 of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
- and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
- This is my covenant to them, when I will take away their sins."2
- Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.
- For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
- For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,
- even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy.
- For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.
- Oh 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!
- "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?"3
- "Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?"4
- For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.
- The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
- Isaiah 59:20-21; 27:9; Jeremiah 31:33-34
- Isaiah 40:13
- Job 41:11
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