1 I ask, then did God reject His people? Never may it be! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel: 3 “Lord, they have killed Your prophets, they have torn down Your altars, and I alone have been left, and they are seeking my life”? 4 But what was the divine answer spoken to him? “I have left to Myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” 5 So then also, in the present time, there has been a remnant according to the election of grace. 6 And if by grace, it is no longer from works; otherwise grace no longer would be grace. 7 What then? What Israel is seeking, this it has not obtained, but the elect obtained it. And the rest were hardened, 8 as it has been written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this very day.” 9 And David says: “Let their table be for a snare and for a trap, and for a stumbling block and for a retribution to them. 10 Let their eyes be darkened not to see, and their backs bent over forever.” 11 I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? Never may it be! But in their trespass is salvation to the Gentiles, so as to provoke them to jealousy. 12 But if their trespass is the riches of the world, and their failure is the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness! 13 Now I am speaking to you the Gentiles. Therefore indeed inasmuch as I am apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, 14 if at all I shall provoke to jealousy my own flesh, and shall save some of them. 15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be if not life out from the dead? 16 Now if the firstfruit is holy, also the lump; and if the root is holy, also the branches. 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and have become a fellow-partaker of the fatness of the root of the olive tree, 18 do not boast over the branches. And if you boast against them, you do not support the root, but the root you. 19 You will say, then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.” 20 Rightly so: They were broken off by the unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be high minded, but be afraid. 21 For if God did not at all spare the natural branches, neither will He spare you. 22 Behold therefore the kindness and severity of God: severity indeed upon those having fallen, but kindness of God toward you, if you continue in the kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off. 23 And even they, 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 off out of the naturally wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural, be grafted into the own olive tree! 25 For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you may not be wise in yourselves: A hardening in part has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles may come in. 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it has been written: “The One Delivering will come out of Zion, He will remove ungodliness from Jacob. 27 And this is the covenant from Me to them, when I shall take away their sins.” 28 For as regards the gospel, they are enemies on account of you; but as regards election, beloved on account of the patriarchs. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. 30 For just as you once were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy by the disobedience of these, 31 so these also now have been disobedient for your mercy, so that they also now may have mercy shown them. 32 For God has bound up all in disobedience, that He may show mercy to all. 33 O, the depth of riches, both of wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways! 34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been His counselor?” 35 “Or who has first given to Him, and it will be recompensed to him?” 36 For from Him and through Him and unto Him are all things. To Him be the glory to the ages! Amen.