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| 1 I say then, Did God cast off his people? Be it not so. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. |
Hath God cast away his people – Paul's question and response (quoting Psa. 94:14) clearly indicates that God has not forever cast off his people. This also sounds like a response to Lam. 5:21-22. |
| 2 God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel: |
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| 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my soul. |
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| 4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have left for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal. |
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| 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. |
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| 6 But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. |
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| 7 What then? That which Israel seeketh for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened: |
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| 8 according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day. |
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9 And David saith,Let their table be made a snare, and a trap,
And a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them:
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10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see,
And bow thou down their back always. |
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| 11 I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? Be it not so: but by their fall salvation cometh unto the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. |
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| 12 Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? |
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| 13 But I speak to you that are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry; |
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| 14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy them that are my flesh, and may save some of them. |
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| 15 For if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? |
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| 16 And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches. |
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| 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree; |
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| 18 glory not over the branches: but if thou gloriest, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee. |
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| 19 Thou wilt say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. |
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| 20 Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by thy faith. Be not high-minded, but fear: |
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| 21 for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare thee. |
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| 22 Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but toward thee, God’s goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. |
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| 23 And they also, if they continue not in their unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again. |
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| 24 For if thou wast cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and wast grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more shall these which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? |
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| 25 For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in; |
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26 and so all Israel shall be saved: even as it is written,There shall have come out of Zion the Deliverer;
He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
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27 And this is my covenant unto them,
When I would take away their sins. |
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| 28 As touching the gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake. |
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| 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are not repented of. |
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| 30 For as ye in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, |
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| 31 even so have these also now been disobedient, that by your mercy they also may obtain mercy. |
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| 32 For God hath shut up all unto disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all. |
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| 33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his condemnations, and his ways past tracing out! |
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| 34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? |
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| 35 or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? |
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| 36 For of him, and through him, and unto him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever. Amen. |
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