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Romans 11 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:1 - I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, 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 Eli'jah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:3 - "Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have demolished thy 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 Ba'al."

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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 sought. 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 should not see and ears that should 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 pitfall 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 for ever."

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:11 - So I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall? By no means! But 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 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 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 first fruits 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, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place to share the richness of the olive tree,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:18 - do not boast over the branches. If you do boast, remember it is not you that support the root, but the root that supports you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:19 - 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 only through faith. So do not become proud, but stand in awe.

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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 the others, if they do not persist 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 have been 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 natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:25 - Lest you be wise in your own conceits, I want you to understand this mystery, brethren: a hardening has come upon part of Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles come in,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:26 - and so 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 of God, 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 call of God are irrevocable.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:30 - Just as you were once disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,

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

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:33 - O 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 for ever. Amen.
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

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