Romans 11

1I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.Cross-references: 1Sam 12:22 · 2Ki 23:27 · Ps 77:7 · Ps 89:31 · Ps 94:14 · Jer 31:36 · +9 more

2God didn’t reject his people, whom he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:Cross-references: Gen 44:15 · Ex 32:1 · Num 16:15 · Neh 9:30 · Ps 94:14 · Jer 18:19 · +14 more

3“Lord, they have killed your prophets. They have broken down your altars. I am left alone, and they seek my life.”Cross-references: 1Ki 18:4 · 1Ki 18:13 · 1Ki 18:30 · 1Ki 19:10 · Neh 9:26 · Jer 2:30

4But how does God answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”Cross-references: Num 25:3 · Deut 4:3 · Judg 2:13 · 1Ki 16:31 · 1Ki 19:18 · 2Ki 10:19 · +4 more

5Even so too at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.Cross-references: Rom 9:11 · Rom 9:27 · Rom 11:6 · Rom 11:28 · Eph 1:5

6And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.Cross-references: Deut 9:4 · Rom 3:27 · Rom 4:4 · Rom 5:20 · 1Cor 15:10 · Gal 2:21 · +4 more

7What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.Cross-references: Prov 1:28 · Isa 6:10 · Isa 44:18 · Matt 13:14 · Luke 13:24 · John 12:40 · +17 more

8According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”Cross-references: Deut 29:4 · 2Ki 17:34 · 2Ki 17:41 · Isa 6:9 · Isa 29:10 · Jer 5:21 · +6 more

9David says, “Let their table be made a snare, a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.Cross-references: Deut 6:10 · Deut 32:13 · Deut 32:35 · 1Sam 25:36 · Job 20:20 · Ps 28:4 · +9 more

10Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Always keep their backs bent.”Cross-references: Deut 28:64 · Ps 69:23 · Isa 51:23 · Isa 65:12 · Zech 11:17 · Rom 1:21 · +6 more

11I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.Cross-references: Ezek 18:23 · Ezek 18:32 · Ezek 33:11 · Acts 13:42 · Acts 13:46 · Acts 18:6 · +7 more

12Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!Cross-references: Isa 11:11 · Isa 60:1 · Isa 66:8 · Mic 4:1 · Mic 5:7 · Zech 2:11 · +8 more

13For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,Cross-references: Acts 9:15 · Acts 13:2 · Acts 22:21 · Acts 26:17 · Rom 15:16 · Gal 1:16 · +5 more

14if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.Cross-references: Rom 9:3 · Rom 11:11 · 1Cor 1:21 · 1Cor 7:16 · 1Cor 9:20 · 1Tim 2:4 · +5 more

15For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?Cross-references: Ezek 37:1 · Dan 9:24 · Luke 15:24 · Luke 15:32 · Rom 5:10 · Rom 11:1 · +6 more

16If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.Cross-references: Gen 17:7 · Ex 22:29 · Ex 23:16 · Ex 23:19 · Lev 23:10 · Num 15:17 · +10 more

17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,Cross-references: Deut 8:8 · Judg 9:8 · Ps 52:8 · Ps 80:11 · Isa 6:13 · Isa 27:11 · +14 more

18don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.Cross-references: 1Ki 20:11 · Prov 16:18 · Zech 8:20 · Matt 26:33 · Luke 18:9 · John 4:22 · +7 more

19You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.”Cross-references: Rom 11:11 · Rom 11:17 · Rom 11:23

20True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;Cross-references: 2Chr 20:20 · Ps 138:6 · Prov 28:14 · Prov 28:26 · Isa 2:11 · Isa 2:17 · +33 more

21for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.Cross-references: Jer 25:29 · Jer 49:12 · Rom 8:32 · Rom 11:17 · Rom 11:19 · 1Cor 10:1 · +2 more

22See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.Cross-references: Num 14:18 · Deut 32:39 · Josh 23:15 · Ps 58:10 · Ps 78:49 · Ps 136:15 · +25 more

23They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.Cross-references: Zech 12:10 · Matt 23:39 · 2Cor 3:16

24For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?Cross-references: Rom 11:17 · Rom 11:30

25For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,Cross-references: Ps 22:27 · Ps 72:8 · Ps 72:17 · Ps 107:43 · Ps 127:1 · Prov 3:5 · +25 more

26and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.Cross-references: Ps 14:7 · Ps 106:47 · Isa 11:11 · Isa 45:17 · Isa 54:6 · Isa 59:20 · +17 more

27This is my covenant with them, when I will take away their sins.”Cross-references: Isa 27:9 · Isa 43:25 · Isa 55:3 · Isa 59:21 · Jer 31:31 · Jer 32:38 · +6 more

28Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.Cross-references: Gen 26:4 · Gen 28:14 · Lev 26:40 · Deut 4:31 · Deut 7:7 · Deut 8:18 · +18 more

29For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.Cross-references: Num 23:19 · Hos 13:14 · Mal 3:6 · Rom 8:28 · Heb 7:21

30For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,Cross-references: Rom 11:31 · 1Cor 6:9 · 1Cor 7:25 · 2Cor 4:1 · Eph 2:1 · Eph 2:12 · +5 more

31even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy.Cross-references: Rom 10:16 · Rom 11:15 · Rom 11:25

32For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.Cross-references: John 1:7 · John 12:32 · Rom 3:9 · Rom 3:22 · Gal 3:22 · 1Tim 2:4

33Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!Cross-references: Job 5:9 · Job 9:10 · Job 11:7 · Job 26:14 · Job 33:13 · Job 37:19 · +20 more

34“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”Cross-references: Job 15:8 · Job 36:22 · Isa 40:13 · Jer 23:18 · 1Cor 2:16

35“Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?”Cross-references: Job 35:7 · Job 41:11 · Matt 20:15 · 1Cor 4:7

36For of him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.Cross-references: 1Chr 29:11 · Ps 29:1 · Ps 33:6 · Ps 96:7 · Ps 115:1 · Prov 16:4 · +33 more