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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. 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, 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine al­tars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. 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. 5 Even so then at this pre­sent time also there is a rem­nant ac­cord­ing to the elec­tion of grace. 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 is it no more grace: oth­er­wise work is no more work. 7 What then? Is­rael hath not ob­tained that which he seeketh for; but the elec­tion hath ob­tained it, and the rest were blind­ed 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. 9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stum­bling­block, and a rec­om­pence unto them: 10 Let their eyes be dark­ened, that they may not see, and bow down their back al­way. 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. 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? 13 For I speak to you Gen­tiles, inas­much as I am the apos­tle of the Gen­tiles, I mag­ni­fy mine of­fice: 14 If by any means I may pro­voke to em­u­la­tion them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. 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? 16 For if the first­fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branch­es. 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; 18 Boast not against the branch­es. But if thou boast, thou bear­est not the root, but the root thee. 19 Thou wilt say then, The branch­es were bro­ken off, that I might be graffed in. 20 Well; be­cause of un­be­lief they were bro­ken off, and thou stand­est by faith. Be not high­mind­ed, but fear: 21 For if God spared not the nat­u­ral branch­es, ­take heed lest he also spare not thee. 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. 23 And they al­so, if they abide not still in un­be­lief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. 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? 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. 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: 27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. 28 As con­cern­ing the gospel, they are en­e­mies for your sakes: but as touch­ing the elec­tion, they are beloved for the fa­thers' sakes. 29 For the gifts and call­ing of God are with­out re­pen­tance. 30 For as ye in times past have not be­lieved God, yet have now ob­tained mer­cy through their un­be­lief: 31 Even so have these also now not be­lieved, that through your mer­cy they also may ob­tain mer­cy. 32 For God hath con­clud­ed them all in un­be­lief, that he might have mer­cy upon all. 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! 34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his coun­sel­lor? 35 Or who hath first giv­en to him, and it shall be rec­om­pensed unto him again? 36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glo­ry for ev­er. Amen.