The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Romans 11
1 I ask then, did God reject his people?
May it never be! For I also am an Israelite,
a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of
Benjamin.
2 God didn’t reject his people, whom
he foreknew. Or don’t you know what
the Scripture says about Elijah? How he
pleads with God against Israel:
3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets.
They have broken down your altars. I am
left alone, and they seek my life.”*
4 But how does God answer him? “I have
reserved for myself seven thousand men
who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”*
5 Even so too at this present time also
there is a remnant according to the
election of grace.
6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of
works; otherwise grace is no longer grace.
But if it is of works, it is no longer grace;
otherwise work is no longer work.
7 What then? That which Israel seeks for,
that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones
obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
8 According as it is written, “God gave
them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they
should not see, and ears that they should
not hear, to this very day.” *
9 David says, “Let their table be made a snare, a trap,
a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they
may not see. Always keep their backs bent.”*
11 I ask then, did they stumble that they
might fall? May it never be! But by their
fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to
provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if their fall is the riches of the
world, and their loss the riches of the
Gentiles, how much more their fullness
13 For I speak to you who are Gentiles.
Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I
glorify my ministry,
14 if by any means I may provoke to
jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save
some of them.
15 For if the rejection of them is the
reconciling of the world, what would their
acceptance be, but life from the dead?
16 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump.
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, were
grafted in among them and became
partaker with them of the root and of the
richness of the olive tree,
18 don’t boast over the branches. But if
you boast, remember that it is not you who
supportthe root, butthe root supports you.
19 You will say then, “Branches were
broken off, that I might be grafted in.”
20 True; by their unbelief they were
broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t
be conceited, but fear;
21 for if God didn’t spare the natural
branches, neither will he spare you.
22 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.
23 They also, if they don’t continue in
their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is
able to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut out of that which
is by nature a wild olive tree, and were
grafted contrary tonature into a good olive
tree, how much more will these, which are
the natural branches, be grafted into their
own olive tree?
25 For I don’t desire you to be ignorant,
brothers,† 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,
26 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.
27 This is my covenant with them,
when I will take away their sins.”*
28 Concerning the Good News, they are
enemies for your sake. But concerning the
election, they are beloved for the fathers’
sake.
29 For the gifts and the calling of God are
irrevocable.
30 For as you in time past were disobedient
to God, but now have obtained mercy
by their disobedience,
31 even so these also have now been disobedient,
that by the mercy shown to you
they may also obtain mercy.
32 For God has bound allto disobedience,
that he might have mercy on all.
33 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!
34 “For who has known the mind of the
Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”*
35 “Or who has first given to him,
and it will be repaid to him again?”*
36 For of himand throughhimand to him
are all things. To him be the glory for ever!
Amen.