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Romans 11 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:1 - So I say, Has God put his people on one side? Let there be no such thought. For I am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:2 - God has not put away the people of his selection. Or have you no knowledge of what is said about Elijah in the holy Writings? how he says words to God against Israel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:3 - Lord, they have put your prophets to death, and made waste your altars, and now I am the last, and they are searching for me to take away my life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:4 - But what answer does God make to him? I have still seven thousand men whose knees have not been bent to Baal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:5 - In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:6 - But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:7 - What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:8 - As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:9 - And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:10 - Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:11 - So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:12 - Now, if their fall is the wealth of the world, and their loss the wealth of the Gentiles, how much greater will be the glory when they are made full?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:13 - But I say to you, Gentiles, in so far as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I make much of my position:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:14 - If in any way those who are of my flesh may be moved to envy, so that some of them may get salvation by me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:15 - For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:16 - And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:17 - But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:18 - Do not be uplifted in pride over the branches: because it is not you who are the support of the root, but it is by the root that you are supported.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:19 - You will say, Branches were broken off so that I might be put in.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:20 - Truly, because they had no faith they were broken off, and you have your place by reason of your faith. Do not be lifted up in pride, but have fear;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:21 - For, if God did not have mercy on the natural branches, he will not have mercy on you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:22 - See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:23 - And they, if they do not go on without faith, will be united to the tree again, because God is able to put them in again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:24 - For if you were cut out of a field olive-tree, and against the natural use were united to a good olive-tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be united again with the olive-tree which was theirs?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:25 - For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:26 - And so all Israel will get salvation: as it is said in the holy Writings, There will come out of Zion the One who makes free; by him wrongdoing will be taken away from Jacob:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:27 - And this is my agreement with them, when I will take away their sins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:28 - As far as the good news is in question, they are cut off from God on account of you, but as far as the selection is in question, they are loved on account of the fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:29 - Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:30 - For as you, in time past, were not under the rule of God, but now have got mercy through their turning away,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:31 - So in the same way these have gone against the orders of God, so that by the mercy given to you they may now get mercy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:32 - For God has let them all go against his orders, so that he might have mercy on them all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:33 - O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:34 - Who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord? or who has taken part in his purposes?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:35 - Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:36 - For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever. So be it.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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