Chapter 11
11:1 I say then, has Elohim rejected His people? By no means! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Romans
11:2 Elohim has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah? How he pleads with Elohim against Israel, saying,
11:3 “YASHUWAH, they have killed Your prophets and destroyed Your altars. I alone am left, and they seek my life”?
11:4 But what is the reply of YASHUWAH Elohim to him? “I have kept for Myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
11:5 So then at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
11:6 And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. But if it is by works, then is it no longer by grace; otherwise work would no longer be work.
11:7 What then? Israel has not obtained what it was seeking. But the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
11:8 As it is written: “Elohim has given them a spirit of slumber, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.”
11:9 And David says: “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution to them.
11:10 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and always bow down their backs.”
11:11 I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? By no means! But through their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.
11:12 Now if their transgression means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness mean?
11:13 For I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
11:14 if somehow I may make my kinsmen jealous and may save some of them.
11:15 For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
11:16 If the first portion of the dough is holy, the batch is also holy. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.
11:17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and became a partaker with them of the root and richness of the olive tree,
11:18 do not boast against the branches. If you boast, remember you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.
11:19 You will say then, “The branches were broken off, so that I might be grafted in.”
11:20 This is correct. They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear.
11:21 For if Elohim did not spare the natural branches, neither will He spare you.
11:22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of Elohim ~ severity toward those who fell, but goodness toward you, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.
11:23 And these also, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, for Elohim is able to graft them in again.
11:24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
11:25 For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, lest you be wise in your own estimation, for a partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
11:26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will remove unElohimliness from Jacob”;
11:27 “for this is My covenant with them, when I shall take away their sins.”
11:28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sake, but as regarding the election, they are beloved for the sake of the patriarchs.
11:29 For the gifts and calling of Elohim are irrevocable.
11:30 For as you in times past have not believed Elohim, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
11:32 For Elohim has concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy on all.
11:33 O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of Elohim! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable are His ways!
11:34 “For who has known the mind of YASHUWAH? Or who has become His counselor?”
11:35 “Or who has first given to Him, and it shall be repaid to him?”
11:36 For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory forever! Amen.