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Romans 11 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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God Has Not Rejected Israel

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I say then, has God rejected His people? May it never be! For I too am an Israelite, a seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:2 - [fn]GOD HAS NOT REJECTED HIS PEOPLE whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:3 - “Lord, THEY HAVE KILLED YOUR PROPHETS, THEY HAVE TORN DOWN YOUR ALTARS, AND I ALONE AM LEFT, AND THEY ARE SEEKING MY LIFE.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:4 - But what does the divine response say to him? “I HAVE LEFT for Myself SEVEN THOUSAND MEN WHO HAVE NOT BOWED THE KNEE TO BAAL.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:5 - In this way then, at the present time, a remnant according to God’s [fn]gracious choice has also come to be.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:6 - But if it is by grace, it is no longer of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.
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What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but the chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened;

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:8 - just as it is written,

[fn]GOD GAVE THEM A SPIRIT OF STUPOR,

EYES TO SEE NOT AND EARS TO HEAR NOT,

DOWN TO THIS VERY DAY.”

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And David says,

“LET THEIR TABLE BECOME A SNARE AND A TRAP,

AND A STUMBLING BLOCK AND A RETRIBUTION TO THEM.

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“LET THEIR EYES BE DARKENED TO SEE NOT,

AND BEND THEIR BACKS FOREVER.”

Gentiles Grafted In

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I say then, did they stumble so as to fall? May it never be! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:12 - Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their [fn]fullness be!
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:13 - But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:14 - if somehow I might move to jealousy my [fn]fellow countrymen and save some of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:15 - For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:16 - And if the first piece of dough is holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, the branches are too.
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But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a partaker with them of the [fn]rich root of the olive tree,

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:18 - do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast against them, remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:19 - You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:20 - Quite right! They were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be haughty, but fear,
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:21 - for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:22 - Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God’s kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:23 - And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:24 - For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, 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?

All Israel Will Be Saved

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For I do not want you, brothers, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:26 - and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written,

“THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION,

HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB.”

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“AND THIS IS [fn]MY COVENANT WITH THEM,

WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS.”

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[fn]From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but [fn]from the standpoint of God’s choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers;

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:29 - for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:30 - For just as you once were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of their disobedience,
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:31 - so these also now have been disobedient, that because of the mercy shown to you they also may now be shown mercy.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:32 - For God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:33 -

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:34 - For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, OR WHO BECAME HIS COUNSELOR?
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:35 - Or WHO HAS FIRST GIVEN TO HIM [fn]THAT IT MIGHT BE REPAID TO HIM?
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:36 - For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory [fn]forever. Amen.
LSB Footnotes
In OT, Yahweh, cf. Ps 94:14
Lit choice of grace
In OT, Yahweh, cf. Is 29:10
Or fulfillment
Lit flesh
Lit root of the fatness
Lit the covenant from Me
Lit According to the gospel
Lit according to the election
Lit and it will be paid back
Lit to the ages
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