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So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from 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 about 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 was the divine response to him? "I have kept for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal." |
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So in the same way at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. |
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And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace. |
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What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened, |
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as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day." |
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And David says, "Let their table become a snare and trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them; |
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let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and make their backs bend continually." |
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I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall, did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous. |
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Now if their transgression means riches for the world and their defeat means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full restoration bring? |
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Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, |
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if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and 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 first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches. |
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Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root, |
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do not boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. |
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Then you will say, "The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in." |
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Granted! They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear! |
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For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you. |
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Notice therefore the kindness and harshness of God— harshness 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 they— if they do not continue in their unbelief— will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. |
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For if you were cut off 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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For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: A partial hardening has happened to 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: "The Deliverer will come out of Zion; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob. |
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And this is my covenant with them, when I take away their sins." |
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In regard to the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but in regard to election they are dearly loved for the sake of the fathers. |
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For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable. |
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Just as you were formerly disobedient to God, but have now received mercy due to their disobedience, |
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so they too 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 consigned all people to disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all. |
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Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how fathomless 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 first given to God, that God needs to repay him? |
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For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever! Amen. |
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