# Romans 11 
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1. I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
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2. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?
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3. “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.”
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4. But what is God’s reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
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5. So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
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6. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. 
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7. What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,
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8. as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.” 
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9. And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them; 
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10. let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and bend their backs forever.” 
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11. So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather, through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.
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12. Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean! 
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13. Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry
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14. in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.
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15. For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
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16. If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches. 
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17. But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree,
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18. do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.
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19. Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”
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20. That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear.
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21. For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
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22. Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.
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23. And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.
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24. For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree. 
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25. Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
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26. And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”; 
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27. “and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins.” 
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28. As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.
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29. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
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30. For just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,
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31. so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may now receive mercy.
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32. For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all. 
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33. Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! 
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34. “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” 
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35. “Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?” 
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36. For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen. 

(ESV)