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I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. |
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God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? |
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"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars; I alone am left, and they are seeking my life." |
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But what is the divine reply to him? "I have kept for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal." |
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So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. |
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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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What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened, |
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as it is written, "God gave them a sluggish spirit, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day." |
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And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them; |
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let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and keep their backs forever bent." |
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So I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall? By no means! But through their stumbling salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous. |
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Now if their stumbling means riches for the world, and if their defeat means riches for Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean! |
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Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry |
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in order to make my own people jealous, and thus save some of them. |
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For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead! |
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If the part of the dough offered as first fruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; and if the root is holy, then the branches also are holy. |
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But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place to share the rich root of the olive tree, |
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do not boast over the branches. If you do boast, remember that it is not you that support the root, but the root that supports you. |
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You will say, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in." |
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That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand only through faith. So do not become proud, but stand in awe. |
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For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you. |
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Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness toward you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off. |
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And even those of Israel, if they do not persist in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again. |
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For if you have been 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 natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree. |
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So that you may not claim to be wiser than you are, brothers and sisters, I want you to understand this mystery: a hardening has come upon part of Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. |
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And so all Israel will be saved; as it is written, "Out of Zion will come the Deliverer; he will banish ungodliness from Jacob." |
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"And this is my covenant with them, when I take away their sins." |
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As regards the gospel they are enemies of God for your sake; but as regards election they are beloved, for the sake of their ancestors; |
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for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. |
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Just as you were once disobedient to God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience, |
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so they have now been disobedient in order that, by the mercy shown to you, they too may now receive mercy. |
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For God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that he may be merciful to all. |
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O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! |
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"For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?" |
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"Or who has given a gift to him, to receive a gift in return?" |
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For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen. |
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