Romans 11
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Romans 11:11-32

11I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? By no means: but rather through their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. 12Now 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?1 13For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office: 14If by any means I may provoke to jealousy them who are my flesh, and may save some of them. 15For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? 16For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy : and if the root is holy, so are the branches. 17And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;2 18Boast not against the branches. But if thou boastest, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. 19Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. 20Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: 21For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. 22Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them who fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou shalt continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. 23And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again. 24For if thou wast cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wast grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? 25For 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 hath happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles shall be come in.3 26And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 27For this is my covenant to them, when I shall take away their sins. 28As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes. 29For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. 30For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:4 31Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.5 32For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.6

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  1. 1. Romans 11:12 diminishing: or, decay, or, loss ↩
  2. 2. Romans 11:17 among them: or, for them ↩
  3. 3. Romans 11:25 blindness: or, hardness ↩
  4. 4. Romans 11:30 believed: or, obeyed ↩
  5. 5. Romans 11:31 believed: or, obeyed ↩
  6. 6. Romans 11:32 concluded...: or, shut them all up together ↩

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Revised Webster's Bible — 1833 — Public Domain