Romans 11:1-15
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1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
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2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
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3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
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4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
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5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
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6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
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7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
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8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
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9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
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10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
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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.
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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?
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13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
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14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
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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?