Romans 11 (NET)

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Romans 11:1¹So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:2²God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:3³“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars; I alone am left and they are seeking my life! ”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:4⁴But what was the divine response to him? “I have kept for myself 7,000 people who have not bent the knee to Baal.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:5⁵So in the same way at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:6⁶And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:7⁷What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:8⁸as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day. ”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:9⁹And David says, “Let their table become a snare and trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:10¹⁰let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and make their backs bend continually. ”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:11¹¹I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall, did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:12¹²Now if their transgression means riches for the world and their defeat means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full restoration bring?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:13¹³Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:14¹⁴if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:15¹⁵For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:16¹⁶If the first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:17¹⁷Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:18¹⁸do not boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:19¹⁹Then you will say, “The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:20²⁰Granted! They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:21²¹For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:22²²Notice therefore the kindness and harshness of God—harshness toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness toward you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:23²³And even they—if they do not continue in their unbelief—will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:24²⁴For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:25²⁵For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: A partial hardening has happened to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:26²⁶And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:27²⁷And this is my covenant with them, when I take away their sins. ”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:28²⁸In regard to the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but in regard to election they are dearly loved for the sake of the fathers.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:29²⁹For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:30³⁰Just as you were formerly disobedient to God, but have now received mercy due to their disobedience,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:31³¹so they too have now been disobedient in order that, by the mercy shown to you, they too may now receive mercy.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:32³²For God has consigned all people to disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:33³³Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how unfathomable his ways!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:34³⁴For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:35³⁵Or who has first given to God, that God needs to repay him?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Romans 11:36³⁶For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever! Amen.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

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