Thus says the Lord:
(A)“As the new wine is found in the cluster,
    and they say, ‘Do not destroy it,
    for there is a blessing in it,’
so I will do for my servants' sake,
    (B)and not destroy them all.

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So too at the present time there is (A)a remnant, chosen by grace. (B)But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

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24 For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.

The Mystery of Israel's Salvation

25 (A)Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers:[a] (B)a partial hardening has come upon Israel, (C)until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written,

(D)“The Deliverer will come (E)from Zion,
    he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”;

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 11:25 Or brothers and sisters

27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: (A)“Though the number of the sons of Israel[a] be as the sand of the sea, (B)only a remnant of them will be saved, 28 for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.” 29 And as Isaiah predicted,

(C)(D)“If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring,
    (E)we would have been like Sodom
    and become like Gomorrah.”

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:27 Or children of Israel

20 And if the Lord had not cut short the days, no human being would be saved. But for (A)the sake of the elect, whom (B)he chose, he shortened the days.

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22 And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for (A)the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

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Behold, (A)the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,
    and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,
    (B)except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.

“For behold, I will command,
    (C)and shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
    but no pebble shall fall to the earth.

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11 (A)For I am with you to save you,
declares the Lord;
(B)I will make a full end of all the nations
    among whom I scattered you,
    but of you I will not make a full end.
(C)I will (D)discipline you in just measure,
    and I will by no means leave you unpunished.

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13 (A)And though a tenth remain in it,
    it will be burned[a] again,
like a terebinth or an oak,
    whose stump (B)remains
    when it is felled.”
(C)The holy seed[b] is its stump.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 6:13 Or purged
  2. Isaiah 6:13 Or offspring

14 (A)Who knows whether he will not turn and relent,
    and (B)leave a blessing behind him,
(C)a grain offering and a drink offering
    for the Lord your God?

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