11:1   I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? May it never happen! For I too come from Israelite stock, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

11:2  God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

11:3   "Lord, THEY HAVE KILLED YOUR PROPHETS, THEY HAVE TORN DOWN YOUR ALTARS, AND I FEEL ALONE , AND THEY SEEK MY LIFE."

11:4  But what does God respond to him? " I HAVE KEPT for Myself SEVEN THOUSAND MEN WHO HAVE NOT BOWED THE KNEE TO BAAL."

11:5  In the same way then, there has also come into existence at the present time a remnant according to God's gracious choice.

11:6  But if it comes by grace, it can no longer come into existence on the basis of works, otherwise grace does not exist.

11:7  What then? What Israel seeks, it has not obtained, but those who God has chosen obtained it, and the rest became hardened;

11:8  just as the scriptures read, " GOD GAVE THEM A SPIRIT OF STUPOR, EYES TO SEE NOT AND EARS TO HEAR NOT, DOWN TO THIS VERY DAY."

11:9  And David says," LET THEIR TABLE BECOME A SNARE AND A TRAP,AND A STUMBLING BLOCK AND A RETRIBUTION TO THEM.

11:10  " LET THEIR EYES BECOME DARKENED TO SEE NOT, AND BEND THEIR BACKS FOREVER."

11:11   I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never happen! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.

11:12  Now if their transgression leads to riches for the world and their failure leads to riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fulfillment lead to!

11:13  But I speak to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I serve as an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

11:14   if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow countrymen and save some of them.

11:15  For if their rejection leads to the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance produce but life from the dead?

11:16  If God made the first piece of dough holy, He made the lump also; and if the root has holiness, the branches have holiness too.

11:17   But if God broke some of the branches off, and God grafted you, a wild olive, in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree,

11:18   do not show arrogance toward the branches; but if you show arrogance, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

11:19   You will say then, " God broke the branches off so that He might graft me in."

11:20  Quite right, God broke them off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith Do not have conceit, but fear;

11:21  for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either.

11:22  Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God's kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise He will cut you off.

11:23  And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, God will graft them in, for God has the ability to graft them in again.

11:24  For if God cut you from what by nature constitutes a wild olive tree, and grafted you contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will God have the capability of grafting the natural branches into their own olive tree?

11:25  For I do not want you, brethren, to not know of this mystery--so that you will not seem wise in your own estimation--that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;

11:26   and so all Israel will receive salvation; just as the scriptures read, " THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB."

11:27  "I WILL MAKE MY COVENANT WITH THEM, WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS."

11:28   From the standpoint of the gospel they have become enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of God's choice He loves them for the sake of the fathers;

11:29   for the gifts and the calling of God do not cease.

11:30   For just as you once disobeyed God, now God shows them mercy because of their disobedience,

11:31  so these also now have disobeyed, that because of the mercy shown to you they also may now receive mercy.

11:32  For God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all.

11:33   Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable we find His judgments and unfathomable His ways!

11:34   For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, OR WHO BECAME HIS COUNSELOR?

11:35   Or WHO HAS FIRST GIVEN TO HIM THAT THEY MIGHT PAY IT BACK TO HIM AGAIN?

11:36  For from Him and through Him and to Him exist all things To Him belong the glory forever. Amen.