New Testament in a Year

11 ¶ I say then, Has God cast away his people? No, in no wise. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

² God has not cast away his people whom he knew beforehand. Know ye not what the scripture says of Elijah? how speaking to God against Israel, he said,

³ Lord, they have killed thy prophets and ruined thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

⁴ But what did the answer of God say unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee before Baal.

⁵ Even so then at this present time also, there is a remnant by the gracious election of God.

⁶ And if by grace, then is it not by works; otherwise, the grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, then it is no longer grace; otherwise, the work is no longer work.

⁷ What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks after; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded

⁸ (according as it is written, God has given them the spirit of anguish, eyes with which they do not see and ears with which they do not hear) unto this day.

⁹ And David says, Let their table be turned into a snare and a net and a stumblingblock and a recompense unto them;

¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and bow down their back always.

¹¹ I say then, Have they stumbled in such a manner that they should fall completely? No, in no wise; but rather through their fall, saving health is come unto the Gentiles to provoke them unto jealousy.

¹² And if the fall of them is the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles, how much more shall their fullness be?

¹³ For (I call you Gentiles) inasmuch as I am truly the apostle of the Gentiles, my honorable ministry,

¹⁴ if in any manner I may provoke my nation to jealousy and cause some of them to be saved.

¹⁵ For if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

¹⁶ For if the firstfruit is holy, so shall the rest be; and if the root is holy, so shall be the branches.

¹⁷ And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them and hath been made participant of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,

¹⁸ do not boast against the branches. But if thou boast, know that thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee.