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Romans 11 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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The Remnant of Israel

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:1 - I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham,[fn] a member of the tribe of Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:2 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:3 - “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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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:4 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:5 - So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:6 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:7 - What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:8 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:9 - And David says,
“Let their table become a snare and a trap,
a stumbling block and a retribution for them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:10 - let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,
and bend their backs forever.”

Gentiles Grafted In

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:11 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:12 - 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[fn] mean!

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:13 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:14 - in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:15 - For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:16 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:17 - 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[fn] of the olive tree,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:18 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:19 - Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:20 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:21 - For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:22 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:23 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:24 - 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.

The Mystery of Israel’s Salvation

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:25 - Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers:[fn] a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:26 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:27 - “and this will be my covenant with them
when I take away their sins.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:28 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:29 - For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:30 - For just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:31 - so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may now[fn] receive mercy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:32 - For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:33 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:34 - “For who has known the mind of the Lord,
or who has been his counselor?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:35 - “Or who has given a gift to him
that he might be repaid?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:36 - For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
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ESV Footnotes
Or one of the offspring of Abraham
Greek their fullness
Greek root of richness; some manuscripts richness
Or brothers and sisters
Some manuscripts omit now
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