ROM 11
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1I ask then, did YAHWEH reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2YAHWEH didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with YAHWEH against Israel: 3“For the children of Israelhaveforsaken your covenant, thrown down your alters and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”#11:3 1 Kings 19:10,14 4But how does YAHWEH answer him? “Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all knees of which have not bowed to Baal.”#11:4 1 Kings 19:18 5Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 6And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
7What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened. 8According as it is written, “But YAHWEH has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.”#11:8 Deuteronomy 29:4; Isaiah 29:10 9David says,
“Let their table before them become a snare.
May it become a retribution and a trap.
10 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see.
Let their backs be continually bent.” # 11:10 Psalm 69:22,23
11I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. 12Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness? 13For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry; 14if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them. 15For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead? 16If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches. 17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree, 18don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you. 19You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.” 20True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear; 21for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. 22See then the goodness and severity of YAHWEH. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off. 23They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for YAHWEH is able to graft them in again. 24For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
25For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers,#11:25 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, 26and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written,
“A Redeemer will come to Zion,
and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says YAHWEH.
27 As for me, this is my covenant with them, says YAHWEH,
for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.” # 11:27 Isaiah 59:20-21; 27:9; Jeremiah 31:33-34
28Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake. 29For the gifts and the calling of YAHWEH are irrevocable. 30For as you in time past were disobedient to YAHWEH, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, 31even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy. 32For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.
33Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of YAHWEH! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his Ways past tracing out!
34 “Who has directed YAHWEH’S Spirit,
or has taught him as his counselor?” # 11:34 Isaiah 40:13
35 “Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?
Everything under the heavens is mine.” # 11:35 Job 41:11
36For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.
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