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Romans - ch 11 v 1 - 20
- I say then, Hath God cast away his people? By no means. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
- God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
- Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thy altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
- But what saith the answer of God to him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.
- Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
- And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
- What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
- (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) to this day.
- And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompense to them:
- Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always.
- I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? By no means: but rather through their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
- Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
- For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office:
- If by any means I may incite to emulation them who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
- For if the rejection of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
- For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
- And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive-tree, art ingrafted among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive-tree;
- Boast not against the branches. But if thou boastest, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
- Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be ingrafted.
- Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:
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