KJ3 Literal Translation
Romans 11
1 God has not cast off all Israel. 16 There is hope of their conversion. 33 God’s judgments are unsearchable.
1I say then, Did not God thrust away His people? Let it not be! For I also am an Israelite, out of Abraham’s seed, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2“God did not put away His people” whom He foreknew. Psa. 94:14 Or do you not know what the Scripture said in Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,
3Lord, “they killed Your prophets,” “and they dug down Your altars,” “and only I am left, and they seek my life.” 1 Kg. 19:10
4But what does the Divine answer say to him, “I reserved to Myself seven thousand men who did not bow the knee to Baal.” 1 Kg. 19:18
5So then, also in the present time a remnant according to election of grace has come to be.
6But if by grace, no longer is it of works; else grace no longer becomes grace. But if of works, it is no longer grace; else work is no longer work.
7What then? What Israel seeks, this it did not obtain, but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened;
8even as it is written, “God gave to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not seeing and ears not hearing” until today, this day. Isa. 29:10; Deut. 29:4
9And David said, “Let their table become for a snare and a trap, and for a stumbling block,” and a recompense to them;
10“let their eyes be darkened, not to see, and their back through all bent.” LXXPsa.68:23, 24; MT-Psa. 69:22, 23
11I say, then, Did not they stumble that they might fall? Let it not be! But by their deviation came salvation to the nations, to provoke them to jealousy.
12But if their deviation is the riches of the world, and their default the riches of the nations, how much more their fulfilling?
13For I speak to you, the nations, inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of the nations (I glorify my ministry),
14if somehow I may provoke to jealousy my flesh, and may save some of them.
15For if their casting away is the reconciliation of the world, what is the reception, except life from the dead?
16Now if the firstfruit is holy, so also the lump. And if the root is holy, so also are the branches.
17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree were grafted in among them, and became a sharer of the root and the fatness of the olive tree,
18do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, it is not you that bears the root, but the root bears you.
19You will say then, The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.
20Well! For unbelief they were broken off. And you stand by faith. Do not be highminded, but fear.
21For if God did not spare the according to nature branches, fear lest neither He will spare you.
22Behold, therefore, the kindness and severity of God: On the ones having fallen, severity. But on you, kindness, if you continue in the kindness. Otherwise, you will also be cut off.
23And those also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in. For God is able to graft them in again.
24For if you were cut out of the according to nature wild olive tree, and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more these, the ones according to nature, will be grafted into their own olive tree?
25For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be wise among yourselves, that hardness in part has happened to Israel until the fulfilling of the nations comes in;
26and so all Israel will be saved, even as it has been written, “The One delivering will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
27And this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins.” Isa. 59:20, 21
28Indeed, as regards the gospel, ones hostile toward you, but as regards the election, beloved on account of the fathers.
29For the free gifts and the calling of God are not to be repented of.
30For as you then also disobeyed God, but now have obtained mercy by the disobedience of these,
31so also these now have disobeyed, so that they also may obtain mercy by your mercy.
32For God shut up all into disobedience, that He may show mercy to all.
33O the depth of the riches and of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!
34“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who came to be His counselor?” Isa. 40:13
35“Or who first gave to Him, and it will be repaid to him?” Job 41:11
36Because of Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.
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