11:1I say then: Has God thrust away his people? 11:1Far from it. 11:1For I too am an Israelite, from the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin: God has not thrust away his people, whom he foreknew. 11:2Or do you not know what Scripture says in Elijah? 11:2How he pleads with God against Israel: "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have dug under your altars: and I have been left alone, and they are seeking my life." 11:4But what does the divine answer say to him? 11:4"I have left for myself seven thousand men, who have not bent the knee before Baal." 11:5So then in this time too a remnant according to the election of grace has been made safe.
11:6But if by grace, then no longer from works: otherwise grace is no longer grace. 11:7What then? 11:7What Israel was seeking, this it has not obtained: but the election has obtained it: and the rest have been blinded: just as it has been written: "God has given them a spirit of stupor: eyes so that they may not see, and ears so that they may not hear, up to the present day." 11:9And David says: "Let their table become a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a repayment for them. 11:10Let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see: and bend their back always." 11:11I say then: Have they so stumbled that they should fall?
11:11Far from it. 11:11But by their offence, salvation is for the nations, so that they may rival them. 11:12But if their offence is the riches of the world, and their diminishing the riches of the nations: how much more their fullness? 11:13For to you nations I say: As long indeed as I am Apostle of the nations, I will honour my ministry, if somehow I may provoke my flesh to rivalry, and make some of them safe. 11:15For if their loss is the reconciliation of the world: what will their taking up be, if not life from the dead? 11:16But if the first portion is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
11:17But if some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though you were a wild olive, have been grafted in among them, and have been made a sharer of the root, and of the richness of the olive, do not boast against the branches. 11:18But if you boast: it is not you who carry the root, but the root you. 11:19You will say then: "Branches have been broken off so that I might be grafted in." 11:20Good: on account of unbelief they have been broken off. 11:20But you stand by faith: do not think lofty things, but fear. 11:21For if God has not spared the natural branches: lest perhaps he not spare you either.
11:22See then the goodness, and severity of God: towards those indeed who have fallen, severity: but towards you the goodness of God, if you remain in goodness, otherwise you too will be cut off. 11:23But they too, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again. 11:24For if you have been cut out from the wild olive natural to you, and against nature have been grafted into a good olive: how much more will those who are according to nature be grafted into their own olive? 11:25For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery (so that you may not be wise in your own eyes), that blindness in part has befallen Israel, until the fullness of the nations should enter, and so all Israel should be made safe, just as it has been written: "There will come from Zion one who will rescue, and turn away impiety from Jacob.
11:27And this is my covenant for them: when I have taken away their sins." 11:28According to the Gospel indeed, they are enemies on account of you: but according to election, most dear on account of the fathers. 11:29For without repentance are the gifts and the calling of God. 11:30For just as you too once did not believe God, but now have obtained mercy on account of their unbelief: so these too now have not believed, unto your mercy: so that they themselves may also obtain mercy. 11:32For God has shut up all things in unbelief, so that he may have mercy on all. 11:33O depth of the riches of the wisdom, and of the knowledge of God: how incomprehensible are his judgements, and unsearchable his ways!
11:34For who has known the mind of the Lord? 11:34Or who has been his counsellor? 11:35Or who first gave to him, and it will be repaid to him? 11:36Since from him, and through him, and in him are all things: to him be glory for ages. 11:36Amen.