 1 I say then: Has God cast away His people? That cannot be+. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Do you not know+ what the Scripture says about Elijah? How He makes intercession to God against Israel saying: 3 Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn+ down your altars. I am left alone and now they seek my life. 1 Kings 19:10 4 But what does the answer of God say to him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal. 1 Kings 19:18 5 Even so then, at this present time also, there is a remnant according to the election~ of grace. 6 If by grace, then is it no longer+ of works. Otherwise grace is no longer+ grace. But if it is from works, then is it no longer+ grace. Otherwise work is no longer+ work. 7 What then? Israel has not obtained what it sought+. Except the elect+ obtained it and the rest were blinded. 8 As it is written: God has given the spirit of slumber to them, eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear, even to this day. Isaiah 29:10 9 And David said: Let their table be made a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a repayment+ to them. Psalm 69:22 10 Let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see and bow down their back always. Psalm 69:23 11 I say then: Have they stumbled so that they should fall? That cannot be+. But rather through their transgressions+, salvation has come to the Gentiles to provoke them to jealousy. 12 Now if their transgressions+ bring about the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them bring riches to the Gentiles, how much more shall their fullness be? 13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles and I delight+ in serving+ you. 14 If by any means I may provoke to jealousy+ those who are of my own flesh and thereby rescue+ some of them. 15 For if the casting away of them produce the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? 16 For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy. If the root is holy, so are the branches. 17 If some of the branches are broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree, 18 do not boast against the branches. But if you boast, remember you do not bear the root, but the root bears you. 19 Then you may say: The branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in. 20 Well, it was because of unbelief that they were broken off, and by faith that you stand. Do not be high minded, but fear. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, take heed lest He also not spare you. 22 Behold therefore the goodness and the severity of God. Severity on those who fell, but goodness toward you if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. 23 They also, if they do not abide still in unbelief, will be grafted in. For God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree that is wild by nature and were grafted into a good olive tree, contrary to nature, then how much more shall these who are the natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree? 25 For I would not, family+, want you to be ignorant~ of this mystery~, lest you should be wise in your own conceits: That, in part, blindness is happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 So, all Israel will be saved. As it is written: There shall come out of Zion+ the Deliverer, and turn ungodliness away from Jacob. Isaiah 59:20 27 For this is my covenant~ to them, when I shall take away their sins. Isaiah 27:9 28 As concerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sakes. But concerning the elect+, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes. 29 For the gifts and calling of God are not to be repented+. 30 For as you in times past have not believed God, yet now you have received+ mercy through their unbelief. 31 Now these also have not believed so that through your mercy they also may receive+ mercy. 32 For God has determined+ them all to be in unbelief so that He might have mercy upon them all. 33 O the depth of the riches in both the wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out. 34 For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor? Isaiah 40:13 35 Or who has first given to Him and it shall be repaid+ to them again? Job 41:11 36 For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory forever. Amen.
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