1 I say, then, has God cast away his people? May it never 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. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,
3 "Lord, they killed your prophets and dug down your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life"?
4 But what does the divine answer say to him? "I have kept for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal."
5 Even so, then, at the present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 And if by grace, it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
7 What then? What Israel seeks, it did not obtain, but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened;
8 even as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes not to see and ears not to hear, until this day."
9 And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, and a stumbling block and a recompense to them;
10 let their eyes be darkened, not to see, and bow down their back always."
11 I say, then, did they stumble so that they should fall? May it never be! But by their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if their trespass is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!
13 For I speak to you, the Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and may save some of them.
15 For if their casting away is the reconciliation of the world, what will the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16 And if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a fellow partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree,
18 do not boast against the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who bear the root, but the root bears you.
19 You will say, then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."
20 That is true: by unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be high-minded, but fear;
21 for if God did not spare the natural branches, take heed, or he may not spare you either.
22 See, then, the goodness and severity of God: upon those who fell, severity; but upon you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
23 And they also, if they do not continue 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 which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, who are according to nature, be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of this mystery, so that you may not be wise in your own estimation: that hardening in part has come to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in;
26 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;
27 and this is the covenant from me to them, when I take away their sins."
28 As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake; but as regards the election, beloved for the fathers' sake.
29 For the gifts and the calling of God are without regret.
30 For as you also once disobeyed God, but now have obtained mercy through their disobedience,
31 so also these now have disobeyed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God has shut up all in disobedience, 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 tracing out!
34 "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?"
35 "Or who has first given to him, that it should be repaid to him?"
36 For of him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen.