English Bible Presentation Sharing - Romans Book, chapter 11, verse 3 in Net Version

Romans 11 : 1 (NET)

So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

Romans 11 : 2 (NET)

God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

Romans 11 : 3 (NET)

"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars; I alone am left and they are seeking my life!"

Romans 11 : 4 (NET)

But what was the divine response to him? "I have kept for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal."

Romans 11 : 5 (NET)

So in the same way at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.

Romans 11 : 6 (NET)

And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

Romans 11 : 7 (NET)

What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened,

Romans 11 : 8 (NET)

as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day."

Romans 11 : 9 (NET)

And David says, "Let their table become a snare and trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;

Romans 11 : 10 (NET)

let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and make their backs bend continually."

Romans 11 : 11 (NET)

I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall, did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous.

Romans 11 : 12 (NET)

Now if their transgression means riches for the world and their defeat means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full restoration bring?

Romans 11 : 13 (NET)

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

Romans 11 : 14 (NET)

if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.

Romans 11 : 15 (NET)

For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

Romans 11 : 16 (NET)

If the first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.

Romans 11 : 17 (NET)

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root,

Romans 11 : 18 (NET)

do not boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

Romans 11 : 19 (NET)

Then you will say, "The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in."

Romans 11 : 20 (NET)

Granted! They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear!

Romans 11 : 21 (NET)

For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.

Romans 11 : 22 (NET)

Notice therefore the kindness and harshness of God� harshness toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness toward you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

Romans 11 : 23 (NET)

And even they� if they do not continue in their unbelief� will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

Romans 11 : 24 (NET)

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?

Romans 11 : 25 (NET)

For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: A partial hardening has happened to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

Romans 11 : 26 (NET)

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come out of Zion; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob.

Romans 11 : 27 (NET)

And this is my covenant with them, when I take away their sins."

Romans 11 : 28 (NET)

In regard to the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but in regard to election they are dearly loved for the sake of the fathers.

Romans 11 : 29 (NET)

For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

Romans 11 : 30 (NET)

Just as you were formerly disobedient to God, but have now received mercy due to their disobedience,

Romans 11 : 31 (NET)

so they too have now been disobedient in order that, by the mercy shown to you, they too may now receive mercy.

Romans 11 : 32 (NET)

For God has consigned all people to disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all.

Romans 11 : 33 (NET)

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how fathomless his ways!

Romans 11 : 34 (NET)

For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?

Romans 11 : 35 (NET)

Or who has first given to God, that God needs to repay him?

Romans 11 : 36 (NET)

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever! Amen.