1 | I say
then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of
the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. |
2 | God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.
Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God
against Israel saying, |
3 |
Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am
left alone, and they seek my life.
1 Kings 19:10,
14
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4 | But what saith the answer of God unto him?
I have reserved to
myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of
Baal.
1 Kings 19:18
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5 | Even so then at
this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of
grace. |
6 | And if by grace,
then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of
works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work. |
7 | What then? Israel hath not obtained
that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were
blinded. |
8 | (According as
it is written,
God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should
not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
Isa 29:10
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9 | And David saith,
Let their table be made
a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
Psa 69:22
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10 |
Let their eyes be darkened,
that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
Psa 69:23
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11 | I say then, Have they stumbled that
they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come
unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. |
12 | Now if the fall of them be the riches of the
world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more
their fulness? |
13 | For I
speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify
mine office: |
14 | If by
any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save
some of them. |
15 | For if
the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the
receiving of them be, but life from the dead? |
16 | For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy:
and if the root be holy, so are the branches. |
17 | And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou,
being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of
the root and fatness of the olive tree; |
18 | Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou
bearest not the root, but the root thee. |
19 | Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that
I might be graffed in. |
20 |
Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith.
Be not highminded, but fear: |
21
| For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also
spare not thee. |
22 |
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell,
severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness:
otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. |
23 | And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief,
shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. |
24 | For if thou wert cut out of the olive
tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good
olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be
graffed into their own olive tree? |
25 | For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this
mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is
happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. |
26 | And so all Israel shall be saved:
as it is written,
There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn
away ungodliness from Jacob:
Isa 59:20
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27
| For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their
sins.
Isa 59:21
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28 | As concerning
the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they
are beloved for the father's sakes. |
29 | For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. |
30 | For as ye in times past
have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: |
31 | Even so have these also
now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. |
32 | For God hath concluded them
all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. |
33 | O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and
knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding
out! |
34 |
For who hath
known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
Isa 40:13
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35 | Or who hath first given to him, and it
shall be recompensed unto him again?
Job 41:11
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36 | For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom
be glory for ever. Amen. |