Romans 11 :: New International Version (NIV)

The Remnant of Israel

Rom 11:1I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

Rom 11:2

Rom 11:2God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don’t you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he appealed to God against Israel:

Rom 11:3

Rom 11:3“Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me”[fn]?

Rom 11:4

Rom 11:4And what was God’s answer to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”[fn]

Rom 11:5

Rom 11:5So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.

Rom 11:6

Rom 11:6And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.

Rom 11:7

Rom 11:7What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain. The elect among them did, but the others were hardened,

Rom 11:8

Rom 11:8as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”[fn]

Rom 11:9

Rom 11:9And David says: “May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them.

Rom 11:10

Rom 11:10May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.”[fn]

Ingrafted Branches

Rom 11:11

Rom 11:11Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious.

Rom 11:12

Rom 11:12But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their full inclusion bring!

Rom 11:13

Rom 11:13I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry

Rom 11:14

Rom 11:14in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them.

Rom 11:15

Rom 11:15For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

Rom 11:16

Rom 11:16If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Rom 11:17

Rom 11:17If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root,

Rom 11:18

Rom 11:18do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.

Rom 11:19

Rom 11:19You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”

Rom 11:20

Rom 11:20Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble.

Rom 11:21

Rom 11:21For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.

Rom 11:22

Rom 11:22Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.

Rom 11:23

Rom 11:23And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

Rom 11:24

Rom 11:24After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

All Israel Will Be Saved

Rom 11:25

Rom 11:25I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in,

Rom 11:26

Rom 11:26and in this way[fn] all Israel will be saved. As it is written: “The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.

Rom 11:27

Rom 11:27And this is[fn] my covenant with them when I take away their sins.”[fn]

Rom 11:28

Rom 11:28As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs,

Rom 11:29

Rom 11:29for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable.

Rom 11:30

Rom 11:30Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience,

Rom 11:31

Rom 11:31so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now[fn] receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you.

Rom 11:32

Rom 11:32For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.

Doxology

Rom 11:33

Rom 11:33Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and[fn] knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!

Rom 11:34

Rom 11:34“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”[fn]

Rom 11:35

Rom 11:35“Who has ever given to God, that God should repay them?”[fn]

Rom 11:36

Rom 11:36For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.

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NIV Footnotes

Deut. 29:4; Isaiah 29:10

Or and so

Or will be

Isaiah 59:20,21; 27:9 (see Septuagint); Jer. 31:33,34

(11:31)

Some manuscripts do not have now.

(11:33)

Or riches and the wisdom and the

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