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I ask then, did Elohim reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
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Elohim didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with Elohim against Israel:
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“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars. I am left alone, and they seek my life.”
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But how does Elohim answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
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Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
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And 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.
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What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
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According as it is written, “Elohim gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”
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David says, “Let their table be made a snare, a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.
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Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Always keep their backs bent.”
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I 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.
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Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
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For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
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if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
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For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
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If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
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But 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,
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don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.
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You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.”
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True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;
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for if Elohim didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
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See then the goodness and severity of Elohim. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
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They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for Elohim is able to graft them in again.
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For 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 i...
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For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, 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 ha...
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and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
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This is my covenant with them, when I will take away their sins.”
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Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.
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For the gifts and the calling of Elohim are irrevocable.
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For as you in time past were disobedient to Elohim, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,
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even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy.
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For Elohim has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.
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Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of Elohim! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
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“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”
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“Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?”
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For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.
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