My
highlighted verses: Romans 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.
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?
13
For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles,
I magnify mine office:
14
If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and
might save some of them.
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?
16 For if
the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy,
so are the branches
Romans
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;
18
Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the
root, but the root thee.
19
Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed
in.
20
Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith.
Be not highminded, but fear:
21
For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare
not thee.
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.
23
And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in:
for God is able to graff them in again.
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?
25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this
mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in
part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26
And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is
written (same way as gentiles),
There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer (Jesus),
and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away
their sins.
28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes:
but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.
29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now
obtained mercy through their unbelief:
31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your
mercy they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might
have mercy upon all.
33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge
of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
34
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed
unto him again?
36
For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory
for ever. Amen.
Them (House of Judah), World (Non Israelites), and Gentiles (House of Ephraim) = three different groups of peoples.
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