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Text -- Romans 11:1-36 (NET)
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Israel’s Rejection not Complete nor Final
11:1 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 .
11:2 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 ?
11:3 “Lord , they have killed your prophets , they have demolished your altars ; I alone am left and they are seeking my life !”
11:4 But what was the divine response to him ? “I have kept for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal .”
11:5 So in the same way at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace .
11:6 And if it is by grace , it is no longer by works , otherwise grace would no longer be grace .
11:7 What then ? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking , but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened ,
11:8 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 .”
11:9 And David says , “Let their table become a snare and trap , a stumbling block and a retribution for them ;
11:10 let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see , and make their backs bend continually.”
11:11 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 .
11:12 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?
11:13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles . Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles , I magnify my ministry ,
11:14 if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them .
11:15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world , what will their acceptance be but life from the dead ?
11:16 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 .
11:17 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 ,
11:18 do not boast over the branches . But if you boast , remember that you do not support the root , but the root supports you .
11:19 Then you will say , “The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”
11:20 Granted ! They were broken off because of their unbelief , but you stand by faith . Do not be arrogant , arrogant , but fear !
11:21 For if God did not spare the natural branches , perhaps he will not spare you .
11:22 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 .
11:23 And even they – if they do not continue in their unbelief – will be grafted in , for God is able to graft them in again .
11:24 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 ?
11:25 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 .
11:26 And so all Israel will be saved , as it is written : “The Deliverer will come out of Zion ; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob .
11:27 And this is my covenant with them , when I take away their sins .”
11:28 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 .
11:29 For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable .
11:30 Just as you were formerly disobedient to God , but have now received mercy due to their disobedience ,
11:31 so they too have now been disobedient in order that , by the mercy shown to you , they too may now receive mercy .
11:32 For God has consigned all people to disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all .
11:33 Oh , the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God ! How unsearchable are his judgments and how fathomless his ways !
11:34 For who has known the mind of the Lord , or who has been his counselor ?
11:35 Or who has first given to God , that God needs to repay him ?
11:36 For from him and through him and to him are all things . To him be glory forever ! Amen .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE |
GRAFT |
Salvation |
Israel |
Rome |
ESCHATOLOGY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, I-V |
Olive |
God |
ELECTION |
Quotations and Allusions |
Gentiles |
HOPE |
Grafting |
Church |
Reprobacy |
Unbelief |
Pride |
FAITHFUL; FAITHFULNESS |
BRANCH ;BOUGH |
Boasting |
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NET Notes -> Rom 11:3; Rom 11:4; Rom 11:4; Rom 11:4; Rom 11:7; Rom 11:8; Rom 11:10; Rom 11:11; Rom 11:11; Rom 11:12; Rom 11:16; Rom 11:16; Rom 11:17; Rom 11:20; Rom 11:22; Rom 11:22; Rom 11:25; Rom 11:25; Rom 11:25; Rom 11:26; Rom 11:27; Rom 11:27; Rom 11:31; Rom 11:32; Rom 11:34; Rom 11:35; Rom 11:35; Rom 11:35
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NET Notes: Rom 11:7 Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
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NET Notes: Rom 11:11 Grk “them”; the referent (Israel, cf. 11:7) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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NET Notes: Rom 11:16 Most interpreters see Paul as making use of a long-standing metaphor of the olive tree (the root…the branches) as a symbol for Israel. See, in t...
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NET Notes: Rom 11:20 Grk “well!”, an adverb used to affirm a statement. It means “very well,” “you are correct.”
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NET Notes: Rom 11:26 It is not clear whether the phrase καὶ οὕτως (kai Joutws, “and so”) is to be understood in a mod...
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NET Notes: Rom 11:31 Some important Alexandrian and Western mss (א B D*,c 1506 pc bo) read νῦν (nun, “now”) here. A few other mss (33 365...
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