ROMANS 11:1-24
11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an 
Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the 
scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel 
saying,
11:3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I 
am left alone, and they seek my life.
11:4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven 
thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
11:5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the 
election of grace.
11:6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more 
grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no 
more work.
11:7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the 
election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
11:8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, 
eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this 
day.
11:9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a 
stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
11:10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their 
back alway.
11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but 
rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke 
them to jealousy.
11:12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing 
of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the 
Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
11:14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and 
might save some of them.
11:15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what 
shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
11:16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be 
holy, so are the branches.
11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive 
tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and 
fatness of the olive tree;
11:18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the 
root, but the root thee.
11:19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed 
in.
11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by 
faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
11:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare 
not thee.
11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, 
severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: 
otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
11:23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: 
for God is able to graff them in again.
11:24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and 
wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall 
these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?