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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Romans 11 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/romans/11.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/romans/11-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Romans 11</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../romans/10.htm" title="Romans 10">◄</a> Romans 11 <a href="../romans/12.htm" title="Romans 12">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/romans/11.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Remnant of Israel</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or one of the offspring of Abraham">a</a></sup></span> a member of the tribe of Benjamin. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But what is God’s reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>as it is written,</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“God gave them a spirit of stupor,</span><br /><span class="indent">eyes that would not see</span><br /><span class="indent">and ears that would not hear,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">down to this very day.”</span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And David says,</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“Let their table become a snare and a trap,</span><br /><span class="indent">a stumbling block and a retribution for them;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,</span><br /><span class="indent">and bend their backs forever.”</span></p> <p class="heading">Gentiles Grafted In</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather, through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek their fullness">b</a></sup></span> mean!</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek root of richness; some manuscripts richness">c</a></sup></span> of the olive tree, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.</p> <p class="heading">The Mystery of Israel’s Salvation</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers:<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or brothers and sisters">d</a></sup></span> a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written,</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“The Deliverer will come from Zion,</span><br /><span class="indent">he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“and this will be my covenant with them</span><br /><span class="indent">when I take away their sins.”</span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>For just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may now<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts omit now">e</a></sup></span> receive mercy. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“For who has known the mind of the Lord,</span><br /><span class="indent">or who has been his counselor?”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Or who has given a gift to him</span><br /><span class="indent">that he might be repaid?”</span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/11-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Or <i>one of the offspring of Abraham</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> Greek <i><span class="catch-word">their</span> fullness</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> Greek <i>root of richness</i>; some manuscripts <i>richness</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">brothers</span> and sisters</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">31</span> Some manuscripts omit <i class="catch-word">now</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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