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The
Remnant of Israel
11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God
forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham,
of the tribe of Benjamin.
11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.
Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh
intercession to God against Israel saying,
11:3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down
thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
11:4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have
reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed
the knee to the image of Baal.
11:5 Even so then at this present time also there is a
remnant according to the election of grace.
11:6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works:
otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works,
then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
11:7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he
seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest
were blinded.
11:8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the
spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears
that they should not hear;) unto this day.
11:9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and
a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
11:10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see,
and bow down their back alway.
Ingrafted Branches
11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall?
God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come
unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
11:12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world,
and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how
much more their fulness?
11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the
apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
11:14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which
are my flesh, and might save some of them.
11:15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of
the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life
from the dead?
11:16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy:
and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou,
being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and
with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive
tree;
11:18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast,
thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
11:19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off,
that I might be graffed in.
11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and
thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
11:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed
lest he also spare not thee.
11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on
them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if
thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be
cut off.
11:23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief,
shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
11:24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is
wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a
good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the
natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
All Israel Will Be Saved
11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant
of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own
conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel,
until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written,
There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn
away ungodliness from Jacob:
11:27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take
away their sins.
11:28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your
sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for
the father's sakes.
11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without
repentance.
11:30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet
have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that
through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
11:32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he
might have mercy upon all.
Doxology
11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and
knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and
his ways past finding out!
11:34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath
been his counsellor?
11:35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be
recompensed unto him again?
11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all
things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen. |
Cults 
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