1I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2God did not cast off his people whom he foreknew. Or do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah? how he pleads with God against Israel: 3Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have dug down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. 4But what does the answer of God say to him? I have left for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal. 5Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 6But if it is by grace, it is no longer of works: otherwise grace is no longer grace. 7What then? That which Israel seeks for, he did not obtain; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened: 8just as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day. 9And David says, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, And a stumbling block, and a recompense to them: 10Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, And bow down their back always. 11I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? God forbid: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. 12Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness? 13But I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then I am an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry; 14if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them. 15For if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? 16And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches. 17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree; 18do not glory over the branches: but if you glory, it is not you who bear the root, but the root you. 19You will say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. 20Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Do not be highminded, but fear: 21for if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. 22Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, God’s goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also shall be cut off. 23And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again. 24For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were 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 do not want you, brothers, to be ignorant of this mystery, lest you be wise in your own estimation, that a hardening in part has befallen Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; 26and so all Israel shall be saved: even as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer; He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 27And this is my covenant to them, When I shall take away their sins. 28As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake. 29For the gifts and the calling of God are not repented of. 30For as you in times past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, 31even so have these also now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they also may now obtain mercy. 32For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all. 33O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond tracing out! 34For who has known the mind of Yehovah? or who has been his counselor? 35or who has first given to him, that it shall be repaid to him again? 36For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen.