Romans 11:1-36 MEV

[1] I say then, has God rejected His people? God forbid! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. [2] God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel, saying, [3] "Lord, they have killed Your prophets and destroyed Your altars. I alone am left, and they seek my life"? [4] But what is the divine reply to him? "I have kept for Myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal." [5] So then at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. [6] And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. But if it is by works, then is it no longer by grace; otherwise work would no longer be work. [7] What then? Israel has not obtained what it was seeking. But the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened. [8] As it is written: "God has given them a spirit of slumber, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day." [9] And David says: "Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution to them. [10] Let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and always bow down their backs." [11] I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid! But through their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous. [12] Now if their transgression means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness mean? [13] For I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, [14] if somehow I may make my kinsmen jealous and may save some of them. [15] For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead? [16] If the first portion of the dough is holy, the batch is also holy. And if the root is holy, so are the branches. [17] But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and became a partaker with them of the root and richness of the olive tree, [18] do not boast against the branches. If you boast, remember you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you. [19] You will say then, "The branches were broken off, so that I might be grafted in." [20] This is correct. They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear. [21] For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will He spare you. [22] Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God-severity toward those who fell, but goodness toward you, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. [23] And these also, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. [24] For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? [25] For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, lest you be wise in your own estimation, for a partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. [26] And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will remove ungodliness from Jacob"; [27] "for this is My covenant with them, when I shall take away their sins." [28] As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sake, but as regarding the election, they are beloved for the sake of the patriarchs. [29] For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable. [30] For just as you once were disobedient to God, but have now received mercy through their disobedience, [31] so these also have now been disobedient, that they also may receive mercy by the mercy shown to you. [32] For God has imprisoned them all in disobedience, so that He might be merciful to all. [33] O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable are His ways! [34] "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has become His counselor?" [35] "Or who has first given to Him, and it shall be repaid to him?" [36] For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory forever! Amen.