✧1I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. ✧2God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel: ✧3“Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well”? ✧4And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” ✧5In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. ✧6And if it is by grace, then it is no longer by works. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace. ✧7What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened, ✧
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as 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.”
✧9And David says: “May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution to them.
✧10May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.”
✧11I ask then, did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Certainly not! However, because of their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.
✧12But if their trespass means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring!
✧13I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry
✧14in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.
✧15For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
✧16If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
✧17Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root,
✧18do not boast over those branches. If you do, remember this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.
✧19You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”
✧20That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.
✧21For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either.
✧22Take notice, therefore, of the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but kindness to you, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.
✧23And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
✧24For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
✧25I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
✧26And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob.
✧27And this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins.”
✧28Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs.