Romans 11
New King James Version
Israel’s Rejection Not Total
11 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. 2 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, 3 (E)“Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life”? 4 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.” 5 (G)Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 6 And (H)if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. [a]But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
7 What then? (I)Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were (J)blinded. 8 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.”
9 And David says:
(M)“Let their table become a snare and a trap,
A stumbling block and a recompense to them.
10 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see,
And bow down their back always.”
Israel’s Rejection Not Final
11 I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But (N)through their [b]fall, to provoke them to (O)jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. 12 Now if their [c]fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!
13 For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as (P)I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, 14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and (Q)save some of them. 15 For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be (R)but life from the dead?
16 For if (S)the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. 17 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 [d]fatness of the olive tree, 18 (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.
19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.” 20 Well said. Because of (W)unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. 22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, [e]goodness, (X)if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise (Y)you also will be cut off. 23 And they also, (Z)if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24 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?
25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be (AA)wise in your own [f]opinion, that (AB)blindness in part has happened to Israel (AC)until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be [g]saved, as it is written:
(AD)“The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
27 For (AE)this is My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins.”
28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are (AF)beloved for the sake of the fathers. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are (AG)irrevocable. 30 For as you (AH)were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, 31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. 32 For God has [h]committed them (AI)all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.
33 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!
34 “For who has known the (AJ)mind of the Lord?
Or (AK)who has become His counselor?”
35 “Or(AL) who has first given to Him
And it shall be repaid to him?”
36 For (AM)of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, (AN)to whom be glory forever. Amen.
Footnotes
- Romans 11:6 NU omits the rest of v. 6.
- Romans 11:11 trespass
- Romans 11:12 trespass
- Romans 11:17 richness
- Romans 11:22 NU adds of God
- Romans 11:25 estimation
- Romans 11:26 Or delivered
- Romans 11:32 shut them all up in
ROMANOS 11
Jacalteco, Oriental
Ay haywan̈ ebnaj Israel sicˈbililoj
11 Tinan̈ xin chinkˈambehan: ¿Tom xayintan̈ecanilto Comam Dios iscon̈ob chal tuˈ? ¡Machoj! Chisje hetxumni win̈an, hanintiˈan Israel inpaxojan, icham Abraham wichmaman, yin̈ naj Benjamín titnajinan. 2 Hataxticˈa yet yalan̈tocanoj, yanicanico Comam Dios ebnaj Israel tuˈ iscon̈oboj, tinan̈ xin mach yahbilo anma Israel tuˈ yu Comam. Chisje henaniti yin̈ tzet tzˈibn̈ebilcano yul Yum Comam yin̈ naj Elías yet yalni naj tet Comam Dios yin̈ ej ismul yet con̈ob Israel: 3 “Mamin, ebnaj wet con̈obtiˈan yakˈ camo ebnaj ebnaj hachejab, yuchcˈanpaxto ebnaj bay chiakˈlax xahanbal tawet. Haninxan̈ehan ayinicˈojan, yajaˈ chinispotxˈpaxojan ebnaj yalni,” ẍi naj.
4 Istakˈwi Comam Dios tet naj Elías tuˈ: “Xainsiqˈuilojan hujeb mil ebnaj winaj mach ay jahno sata tioẍ Baal,” ẍi Comam.
5 Hacpax tuˈ tinan̈, ay haywan̈ ebnaj sicˈbililo yu iscˈulchˈanil iscˈul Comam Dios. 6 Yuto yu iscˈulchˈanil iscˈul Comam yuxin issiqˈuilo Comam ebnaj, maẍtaj yu tzet iswatxˈe ebnaj. Yajaˈ ta yu iscˈulal iswatxˈe ebnaj yuxin issiqˈuilo Comam ebnaj, matxam tzet chal yelapno iscˈulchˈanil iscˈul Comam chal tuˈ.
7 ¿Tzet xin elico anma Israel? Wal xin issay ebnaj yin̈ tzet yu iscan cˈulal yul sat Comam Dios, yajaˈ mach tzujcha apno yu ebnaj. Han̈cˈan̈e ebnaj issiqˈuilo Comam can cˈulal sata Comam, wal huntekˈanxa ebnaj Israel tuˈ yakˈ cawbolo Comam yanma ebnaj. 8 Hacaˈ yalni yul Yum Comam Dios bay chala: “Yakˈ cawbo Comam Dios yanma ebnaj. Waxan̈ca chil ebnaj yip Comam, yajaˈ mach chitxumcha yu ebnaj. Waxan̈ca chabe ebnaj Istzotiˈ Comam, yajaˈ mach chitxumchapaxo yu ebnaj yin̈ tzet chaliloj. Hac tuˈ ye huntekˈan ebnaj tuˈ tinan̈,” ẍiayo. 9 Yalpaxo naj David:
Haˈticˈa iskˈin̈ ebnaj chiyecˈtze tet Comam Dios, haˈ chioc latzˈabo yin̈, yun̈e yaycˈayi cat yalaxayo isyaˈtajil yiban̈.
10 Hacaˈtan̈e chitan̈ilo ismujlubal yuxin mach chu yilni. Hacaˈ hunu mac cˈon̈anxa ye yalan̈ ijatz, hac tuˈ chucano ebnaj yin̈ sunilbal tiempo, ẍi naj rey David.
Iscolbanil anma mach Israeloj
11 Tinan̈ xin chinkˈambepaxojan: ¿Tom xin hayet yaycˈay ebnaj Israel tuˈ yaycˈaycano ebnaj yin̈ huneln̈e? ¡Machoj! Yuto hayet isman̈cˈon ebnaj yin̈ tzet yal Comam Dios, istzujcha apno iscˈulchˈanil yu anma mach Israeloj yun̈e hayet chilni ebnaj Israel tuˈ cat yochenico ebnaj iscˈulal Comam. 12 Yuxin tato hayet yanico ismul ebnaj Israel ischahnicano tzetcˈa anma ay yul sat yiban̈kˈinal tiˈ iscˈulal Comam Dios, yeb tato yet yaycˈay ebnaj Israel tuˈ ischahnicano anma mach Israelo iscˈulal Comam, hajxam yet chimeltzoco sunil anma Israel yul iskˈab Comam Dios, hantan̈em iscˈulal chischah sunil anma yul sat yiban̈kˈinal tiˈ.
13 Tinan̈ xin, ay huneˈ tzet chiwalan teyet hex mach Israeloj. Haˈ Comam an̈einicojan ischejabo xol anma mach Israeloj, caw xin niman yelapno ye huneˈ munil tiˈ yul insatan. 14 Chiwochehan tato chil ebnaj wet con̈obtiˈan hecolchahi, cˈuxantaxca ay ebnaj chochecan̈ cat iscolchapaxoj. 15 Tato hayet yintan̈encanilo Comam Dios anma Israel, yoc anma mach Israelo yin̈ akˈancˈulal yeb Comam; nanxam yoc iscˈulal yet chichahlax ebnaj Israel tuˈ yu Comam hunelxa, lahanmi hacaˈ yet chiitzitzbican̈ anma yin̈ camical. 16 Kˈinalo hacaˈ ixim babel pan chiwatxˈi yin̈ ixim harina, ta yet Comam ye ixim babel, yetpaxo Comam ye sunil ixim harina tuˈ, chal tuˈ. Yebpaxo xin hunu te teˈ, tato yet Comam ye isxeˈ teˈ yetticˈapaxo Comam ye iskˈab teˈ, chal tuˈ.
17 Ay ebnaj Israel tiˈ hacaˈ iskˈab teˈ olivo tzocˈbililoj, hac tuˈ yehi, haxa hex tiˈ xin lahanex hacaˈ iskˈab teˈ xol telajil olivo tzacˈbilico yin̈ yoj teˈ caw olivo isselelo ebnaj. Hac tuˈ yu heyetbin̈encano heba yeb teˈ isxeˈ olivo tuˈ, heyikˈnicano hekˈinal yin̈ teˈ. 18 Mach cheyala ta ecˈbal cˈulex sata teˈ caw iskˈab olivo tuˈ, ta cheyala ta ecˈbal cˈulex xin, nawetij tato maẍtajex ikˈn̈e teˈ isxeˈ olivo tuˈ, to haˈ teˈ xeˈ tuˈ ikˈn̈ehex.
19 Yajaˈ chimheyal hacaˈ tiˈ: “Tzocˈlaxilto teˈ iskˈab tuˈ yun̈e cotzacˈbalaxico yin̈ teˈ yoj olivo tuˈ,” quexchimi. 20 Yeli hac tuˈ yehi, anma Israel tuˈ ilaxiloj yuto mach yayto yul yanma yin̈ Comam, wal hexpaxo xin yu heyayto yul heyanma yin̈ Comam, yuxin quexalaxico isselelo ebnaj; yuxin machojab cheyican̈ heba, xiwan̈wej.
21 Yuto ta mach yakˈ nimancˈulal Comam Dios yin̈ ebnaj Israel hacaˈ iskˈab teˈ caw olivo yehi, hajxamexpaxo chal tuˈ, mach chakˈ nimancˈulal Comam teyin̈ ta chebej heyanayto yul heyanma yin̈ Comam. 22 Txumweloj tato caw cˈulchˈan iscˈul Comam, yajaˈ xin caw howpaxoj. Caw yiti Comam ishowal yin̈ ebnaj yetato isba, wal teyin̈ xin caw cˈulchˈan yute iscˈul Comam, yajaˈ tan̈e yin̈n̈e iscˈulchˈanil iscˈul Comam chelahico iscawxi hecˈul, ta mach xin haˈ hunex chextzocˈlaxiltoj. 23 Yajaˈ xin ta chimeltzo ebnaj Israel cat yanayto ebnaj yul yanma yin̈ Comam chialaxpaxico ebnaj yin̈ yoj teˈ olivo hunelxa, yuto ay yip Comam yanico ebnaj iskˈabo teˈ hunelxa. 24 Hex mach Israelo hex tiˈ, lahanex hacaˈ iskˈab teˈ xol telajil olivo quextzocˈlaxiloj heyalaxico yin̈ teˈ caw olivo, hajxam ebnaj Israel tiˈ, to hacaˈ caw iskˈab teˈ olivo ye ebnaj, yuxin chisje yalaxpaxico ebnaj yin̈ teˈ hunelxa.
Chiapni istiempohal bay chicolcha ebnaj Israel
25 Hex wuẍtaj hex wanab, chiwochehan cheyohtan̈elo tzet ewan ye yu Comam Dios, yun̈e machijex cheyala tato caw ay hehelanil. Ebnaj wet Israelan etza sunil ebnaj cawbilo yanma, hac tuˈ xin chucano ebnaj masanta chioccano sunil anma mach Israelo yul iskˈab Comam. 26 Hayet chijni isba huneˈ tuˈ cat iscolcha ebnaj wet con̈oban, hacaˈ yalni yul Yum Comam Dios bay chala:
Bey Sión chitit naj chiakˈni colbanile cat yinilo naj istxˈojal yin̈ ej yuninal naj Jacob.
27 Haˈ huneˈ tiˈ xin intratohan yeb ebnaj yet chintan̈tzencanilojan ismul ebnaj yiban̈, ẍi Comam.
28 Huneˈ cuybanile yet colbanile tiˈ caw ayco ishowal ebnaj wet Israelan yin̈, yun̈e yakˈlax hamanil teyet, yajaˈ mach chisbej Comam yochen ebnaj, yuto haˈ Comam sicˈlencano yichmam ebnaj. 29 Yuto haˈ tzet chakˈ Comam jet mach chilo Comam hunelxa, yeb xin haˈ mac awtebil yu Comam mach chisman̈cˈoto Comam. 30 Yet yalan̈tocanoj caw man̈cˈomex hex tiˈ, yajaˈ wal tinan̈ xatzˈay iscˈul Comam teyin̈ yu isman̈cˈomal ebnaj Israel tuˈ. 31 Yexn̈etoticˈa xin isman̈cˈomal ebnaj wet con̈ob Israelan tuˈ tinan̈, yajaˈ yun̈e yilni ebnaj iscˈulchˈanil Comam chakˈ teyet, hac tuˈ xin chitzujchapax apno iscˈulchˈanil iscˈul Comam yu ebnaj. 32 Yuto yal Comam Dios tato lahan coman̈cˈomal cosunil, hac tuˈ xin lahann̈e istzˈaypaxo iscˈul Comam jin̈ cosunil.
33 ¡Caw mach isbi hanta iscˈulal Comam Dios, yeb xin ishelanil, yebpaxo isnabal! Caw machi hunu mac chikˈoji istxumni yin̈ tzet chiecˈ yin̈ isnabal Comam yeb xin yin̈ tzet chiswatxˈe Comam.
34 Hacaˈ yalni yul Yum Comam Dios:
¿Mactaxca hunu mac chiohtan̈enilo tzet chiecˈ yin̈ isnabal Comam? ¿Mactaxca chu istzˈajban iscˈul Comam?
35 ¿Mac hunu tiˈ akˈn̈e hunu tzet ye tuˈ tet Comam babel yun̈e ischahni ispaj selel tet Comam? ẍiayoj.
36 Wal xin sunil tzettaj ye tuˈ, tet Comam chitita; yu Comam yuxin aya, ismaypaxo Comam ye sunil. ¡Yuxin alaxojabico ismay Comam yin̈ sunilbal tiempo! ¡Hacojab tuˈ!
Romans 11
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
Israel’s Rejection Not Total
11 I ask, then, has God rejected his people?(A) Absolutely not!(B) For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham,(C) from the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew.(D) Or don’t you know(E) what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah – how he pleads with God against Israel? 3 Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars. I am the only one left, and they are trying to take my life 4 But what was God’s answer to him? I have left seven thousand for myself who have not bowed down to Baal.[b](G) 5 In the same way, then, there is also at the present time a remnant chosen by grace.(H) 6 Now if by grace,(I) then it is not by works; otherwise grace ceases to be grace.[c]
7 What then? Israel did not find what it was looking for,(J) but the elect did find it. The rest were hardened,(K) 8 as it is written,
9 And David says,
Let their table become a snare and a trap,
a pitfall and a retribution to them.
10 Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,
and their backs be bent continually.[e](M)
Israel’s Rejection Not Final
11 I ask, then, have they stumbled so as to fall? Absolutely not! On the contrary, by their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles(N) to make Israel jealous. 12 Now if their transgression brings riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness bring!(O)
13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Insofar as I am an apostle to the Gentiles,(P) I magnify my ministry, 14 if I might somehow make my own people[f](Q) jealous and save some of them.(R) 15 For if their rejection brings reconciliation(S) to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?(T) 16 Now if the firstfruits are holy,(U) so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 Now if some of the branches were broken off,(V) and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them(W) and have come to share in the rich root[g] of the cultivated olive tree, 18 do not boast that you are better than those branches. But if you do boast – you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.(X) 19 Then you will say,(Y) ‘Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.’ 20 True enough; they were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith.(Z) Do not be arrogant, but beware,[h](AA) 21 because if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. 22 Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity towards those who have fallen but God’s kindness(AB) towards you – if you remain in his kindness.(AC) Otherwise you too will be cut off.(AD) 23 And even they, if they do not remain in unbelief,(AE) will be grafted in, because God has the power to graft them in again. 24 For if you were cut off from your native wild olive tree and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these – the natural branches – be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 I don’t want you to be ignorant(AF) of this mystery,(AG) brothers and sisters, so that you will not be conceited:(AH) A partial hardening has come upon Israel(AI) until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.(AJ) 26 And in this way all[i] Israel will be saved, as it is written,
The Deliverer will come from Zion;
he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
27 And this will be my covenant with them[j](AK)
when I take away their sins.[k](AL)
28 Regarding the gospel, they are enemies for your advantage,(AM) but regarding election, they are loved because of the patriarchs,(AN) 29 since God’s gracious gifts and calling(AO) are irrevocable.[l](AP) 30 As you once disobeyed God but now have received mercy through their disobedience, 31 so they too have now disobeyed, resulting in mercy to you, so that they also may now[m] receive mercy. 32 For God has imprisoned all in disobedience(AQ) so that he may have mercy on all.
A Hymn of Praise
33 Oh, the depth of the riches(AR)
and the wisdom and the knowledge of God!(AS)
How unsearchable his judgements(AT)
and untraceable his ways!
34 For who has known the mind of the Lord?(AU)
Or who has been his counsellor?
35 And who has ever given to God,
that he should be repaid?[n](AV)
36 For from him and through him
and to him are all things.(AW)
To him be the glory for ever. Amen.
Footnotes
- 11:3 1Kg 19:10,14
- 11:4 1Kg 19:18
- 11:6 Other mss add But if of works it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
- 11:8 Dt 29:4; Is 29:10
- 11:9–10 Ps 69:22–23
- 11:14 Lit flesh
- 11:17 Other mss read the root and the richness
- 11:20 Lit fear
- 11:26 Or And then all
- 11:26–27 Is 59:20–21
- 11:27 Jr 31:31–34
- 11:29 Or are not taken back
- 11:31 Other mss omit now
- 11:34–35 Jb 41:11; Is 40:13; Jr 23:18
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