Romans 11:11-25

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Israel’s Rejection Not Final

¹¹ I ask, then, have they stumbled in order to fall? Absolutely not! On the contrary, by their stumbling,^[a] salvation has come to the Gentiles^(A) to make Israel jealous. ¹² Now if their stumbling^[b] brings riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full number bring!^(B)

¹³ Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. In view of the fact that I am an apostle to the Gentiles,^(C) I magnify my ministry, ¹⁴ if I can somehow make my own people^[c](D) jealous and save some of them.^{(E) 15} For if their rejection brings reconciliation^(F) to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?^{(G) 16} Now if the firstfruits offered up are holy,^(H) 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,^(I) and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them^(J) and have come to share in the rich root^[d] of the cultivated olive tree, ¹⁸ do not brag that you are better than those branches. But if you do brag—you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.^{(K) 19} Then you will say,^(L) “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” ²⁰ True enough; they were broken off by unbelief, but you stand by faith.^(M) Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.^{(N) 21} For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you either. ²² Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness^(O) toward you—if you remain in His kindness.^(P) Otherwise you too will be cut off.^{(Q) 23} And even they, if they do not remain in unbelief,^(R) 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 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 So that you will not be conceited,^(S) brothers, I do not want you to be unaware^(T) of this mystery:^(U) A partial hardening has come to Israel^(V) until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.^(W)