Romans 11 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

Israel’s Rejection Not Total

Jews and Gentiles Grafted into One Tree

Rom 11:1I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Rom 11:2

Rom 11:2God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,

Rom 11:3

Rom 11:3“LORD, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life”?[fn]

Rom 11:4

Rom 11:4But what does the divine response say to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”[fn]

Rom 11:5

Rom 11:5Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

Rom 11:6

Rom 11:6And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace.[fn] But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

Rom 11:7

Rom 11:7What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded.

Rom 11:8

Rom 11:8Just as it is written:

“God has given them a spirit of stupor,
Eyes that they should not see
And ears that they should not hear,
To this very day.”[fn]

Rom 11:9

Rom 11:9And David says:

“Let their table become a snare and a trap,
A stumbling block and a recompense to them.

Rom 11:10

Rom 11:10Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see,
And bow down their back always.”[fn]

Israel’s Rejection Not Final

Rom 11:11

Rom 11:11I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles.

Rom 11:12

Rom 11:12Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!

Rom 11:13

Rom 11:13For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

Rom 11:14

Rom 11:14if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them.

Rom 11:15

Rom 11:15For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

Rom 11:16

Rom 11:16For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Rom 11:17

Rom 11:17And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree,

Rom 11:18

Rom 11:18do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

Rom 11:19

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

Rom 11:20

Rom 11:20Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear.

Rom 11:21

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

Rom 11:22

Rom 11:22Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness,[fn] if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.

Rom 11:23

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

Rom 11:24

Rom 11:24For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

Rom 11:25

Rom 11:25For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

Rom 11:26

Rom 11:26And so all Israel will be saved,[fn] as it is written:

“The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

Rom 11:27

Rom 11:27For this is My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins.”[fn]

Rom 11:28

Rom 11:28Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.

Rom 11:29

Rom 11:29For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Rom 11:30

Rom 11:30For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience,

Rom 11:31

Rom 11:31even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy.

Rom 11:32

Rom 11:32For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.

Rom 11:33

Rom 11:33Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

Rom 11:34

Rom 11:34“For who has known the mind of the LORD?
Or who has become His counselor?”[fn]

Rom 11:35

Rom 11:35“Or who has first given to Him
And it shall be repaid to him?”[fn]

Rom 11:36

Rom 11:36For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.

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NKJV Footnotes

NU-Text omits the rest of this verse.

(11:8)

Deuteronomy 29:4; Isaiah 29:10

(11:10)

Psalm 69:22, 23

(11:22)

NU-Text adds of God.

Or delivered

Isaiah 40:13; Jeremiah 23:18

(11:35)

Job 41:11

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