Romans 10:17-11:12

Tree of Life Version

^[a] ¹⁷So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Messiah.

¹⁸But I say, have they never heard? Indeed they have, for

“Their voice has gone out into all the earth,
and their words to the ends of the world.”^[b]

¹⁹But I say, did Israel not understand? First Moses says,

“I will provoke you to jealousy
        by those who are not a nation,
    with a nation empty of understanding
    I will vex you.”^[c]
²⁰And Isaiah is so bold as to say,
“I was found by those who did not seek Me;
I became visible to those who did not ask for Me.”^[d]
²¹But about Israel He says,
“All day long I stretched forth My hands
    to a disobedient and contrary people.”^[e]

Israel Not Rejected

11 I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He?^[f] May it never be! For I too am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. ²God has not rejected His people whom He knew beforehand.^[g] Or do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? ³“Adonai, they have killed your prophets, they have destroyed your altars; I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.” ^[h] ⁴But what is the divine response to him? “I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” ^[i] ⁵So in the same way also at this present time there has come to be a remnant^[j] according to God’s gracious choice. ⁶But if it is by grace, it is no longer by works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

⁷What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained; but the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened— ⁸just as it is written,

“God gave them a spirit of stupor,
eyes not to see and ears not to hear,
until this very day.”^[k]

⁹And David says,

“Let their table become a snare and a trap,
a stumbling block and a retribution for them.
¹⁰Let their eyes be darkened so they do not see,
and bend their back continually.”^[l]

¹¹I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they?^[m] May it never be! But by their false step salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke Israel to jealousy. ^[n] ¹²Now if their transgression leads to riches for the world, and their loss riches for the Gentiles, then how much more their fullness!