Romans 11
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I say then, a has God cast away His people? b Certainly not! For c I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
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God has not cast away His people whom d He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,
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e "LORD, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life"?
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But what does the divine response say to him? f "I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."
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g Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
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And h if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
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What then? i Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were j blinded.
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Just as it is written:
k "God has given them a spirit of stupor,
l Eyes that they should not see
And ears that they should not hear,
To this very day."
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And David says:
m "Let their table become a snare and a trap,
A stumbling block and a recompense to them.
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Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see,
And bow down their back always."
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I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But n through their fall, to provoke them to o jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles.
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Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!
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For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as p I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
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if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and q save some of them.
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For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be r but life from the dead?
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For if s the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
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And if t some of the branches were broken off, u 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,
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v do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
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You will say then, "Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in."
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Well said. Because of w unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear.
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For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either.
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Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, x if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise y you also will be cut off.
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And they also, z if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
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For 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?
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For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be a wise in your own opinion, that b blindness in part has happened to Israel c until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
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And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:
d "The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
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For e this is My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins."
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Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are f beloved for the sake of the fathers.
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For the gifts and the calling of God are g irrevocable.
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For as you h were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience,
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even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy.
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For God has committed them i all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.
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Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!
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"For who has known the j mind of the LORD?
Or k who has become His counselor?"
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"Or l who has first given to Him
And it shall be repaid to him?"
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For m of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, n to whom be glory forever. Amen.
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Psalms 94:14
For the LORD will not cast off His people, Nor will He forsake His inheritance.
Jeremiah 46:28
Do not fear, O Jacob My servant," says the LORD, "For I am with you; For I will make a complete end of all the nations To which I have driven you, But I will not make a complete end of you. I will rightly correct you, For I will not leave you wholly unpunished.
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1 Samuel 12:22
For the LORD will not forsake His people, for His great name's sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you His people.
Jeremiah 31:37
Thus says the LORD: "If heaven above can be measured, And the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel For all that they have done, says the LORD.
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2 Corinthians 11:22
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.
Philippians 3:5
Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee.
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Romans 8:29
For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
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1 Kings 19:10
So he said, "I have been very zealous for the LORD God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my life.
1 Kings 19:14
And he said, "I have been very zealous for the LORD God of hosts; because the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my life.
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1 Kings 19:18
"Yet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him."
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2 Kings 19:4
'It may be that the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.'"
Romans 9:27
Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, The remnant will be saved.
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Romans 4:4
Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt.
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Romans 9:31
But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.
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Mark 6:52
For they had not understood about the loaves, because their heart was hardened.
Romans 9:18
Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.
Romans 11:25
For 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.
2 Corinthians 3:14
But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ.
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Isaiah 29:10
For the LORD has poured out on you The spirit of deep sleep, And has closed your eyes, namely, the prophets; And He has covered your heads, namely, the seers.
Isaiah 29:13
Therefore the Lord said: "Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths And honor Me with their lips, But have removed their hearts far from Me, And their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men.
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Deuteronomy 29:3
The great trials which your eyes have seen, the...
Deuteronomy 29:4
Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to perce...
Isaiah 6:9
And He said, "Go, and tell this people: 'Keep o...
Matthew 13:13
Therefore I speak to them in parables, because ...
Matthew 13:14
And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled...
John 12:40
"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their h...
Acts 28:26
Saying, 'Go to this people and say: "Hearing yo...
Acts 28:27
For the hearts of this people have grown dull. ...
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Psalms 69:22
Let their table become a snare before them, And their well-being a trap.
Psalms 69:23
Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see; And make their loins shake continually.
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Isaiah 42:6
I, the LORD, have called You in righteousness, And will hold Your hand; I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the Gentiles.
Isaiah 42:7
To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the prison, Those who sit in darkness from the prison house.
Acts 28:28
"Therefore let it be known to you that the salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will hear it!"
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Deuteronomy 32:21
They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God; They have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols. But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation; I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.
Acts 13:46
Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold and said, "It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken to you first; but since you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
Romans 10:19
But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says: "I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, I will move you to anger by a foolish nation.
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Acts 9:15
But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel.
Acts 22:21
"Then He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you far from here to the Gentiles.'"
Galatians 1:16
To reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood.
Galatians 2:7 - 9
But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised had been committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Peter
Ephesians 3:8
To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ.
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1 Corinthians 9:22
To the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
1 Timothy 4:16
Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
James 5:20
Let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.
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Isaiah 26:16 - 19
LORD, in trouble they have visited You, They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.
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Leviticus 23:10
Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.
James 1:18
Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
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Jeremiah 11:16
The LORD called your name, Green Olive Tree, Lovely and of Good Fruit. With the noise of a great tumult He has kindled fire on it, And its branches are broken.
John 15:2
Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
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Acts 2:39
"For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call."
Ephesians 2:12
That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
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1 Corinthians 10:12
Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
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Hebrews 3:19
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
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1 Corinthians 15:2
By which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you - unless you believed in vain.
Hebrews 3:6
But Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.
Hebrews 3:14
For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end.
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John 15:2
Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
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2 Corinthians 3:16
Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
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Romans 12:16
Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion.
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2 Corinthians 3:14
But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ.
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Luke 21:24
And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
John 10:16
And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.
Romans 11:12
Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!
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Psalms 14:7
Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD brings back the captivity of His people, Let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad.
Isaiah 59:20
The Redeemer will come to Zion, And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob," Says the LORD.
Isaiah 59:21
"As for Me," says the LORD, "this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants' descendants," says the LORD, "from this time and forevermore."
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Isaiah 27:9
Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered; And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: When he makes all the stones of the altar Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust, Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand.
Hebrews 8:12
"For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."
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Deuteronomy 7:8
But because the LORD loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:15
The LORD delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day.
Romans 9:5
Of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen.
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Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
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Ephesians 2:2
In which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience.
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Romans 3:9
What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.
Galatians 3:22
But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
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Isaiah 40:13
Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, Or as His counselor has taught Him?
Jeremiah 23:18
For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, And has perceived and heard His word? Who has marked His word and heard it?
1 Corinthians 2:16
For "who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
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Job 36:22
Behold, God is exalted by His power; Who teaches like Him?
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Job 41:11
Who has preceded Me, that I should pay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
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1 Corinthians 8:6
Yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.
1 Corinthians 11:12
For as woman came from man, even so man also comes through woman; but all things are from God.
Colossians 1:16
For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.
Hebrews 2:10
For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
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Hebrews 13:21
Make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
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