I ask, then, has God rejected his people? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah — how he pleads with God against Israel?
Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars. I am the only one left, and they are trying to take my life!
But what was God’s answer to him? I have left seven thousand for myself who have not bowed down to Baal.
In the same way, then, there is also at the present time a remnant chosen by grace.
What then? Israel did not find what it was looking for, but the elect did find it. The rest were hardened,
as it is written,
God gave them a spirit of stupor,
eyes that cannot see
and ears that cannot hear,
to this day.
And David says,
Let their table become a snare and a trap,
a pitfall and a retribution to them.
I ask, then, have they stumbled so as to fall? Absolutely not! On the contrary, by their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.
Now if their transgression brings riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness bring!
Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Insofar as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
For if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
Now if the firstfruits are holy, so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.
do not boast that you are better than those branches. But if you do boast — you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.
Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness toward you — if you remain in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.
And even they, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, because God has the power to graft them in again.
For if you were cut off from your native wild olive tree and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these — the natural branches — be grafted into their own olive tree?
I don’t want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you will not be conceited: A partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
Regarding the gospel, they are enemies for your advantage, but regarding election, they are loved because of the patriarchs,
As you once disobeyed God but now have received mercy through their disobedience,
Oh, the depth of the riches
and the wisdom and the knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments
and untraceable his ways!
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