Thematic Bible
Romans 11:1 (show verse)
I ask has God rejected his people? Certainly not! I also am an Israelite, a descendant of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Romans 11:2 (show verse)
God has not rejected his people whom he first knew. Do you remember what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he made intercession to God against Israel?
Romans 11:3 (show verse)
Jehovah, they have killed your prophets, and torn down your altars. I am left alone, and they seek my life. (1 Kings 19:14, 18)
Romans 11:4 (show verse)
What does God say in answer to him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
Romans 11:5 (show verse)
Even so at this present time there is a remnant chosen according to God's grace.
Romans 11:6 (show verse)
If it is by grace then it is no longer on the basis of works. Otherwise grace is not grace (undeserved kindness). But if it is of works then it is not by grace. Otherwise works are no longer works.
Romans 11:7 (show verse)
What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks. The chosen ones have obtained it, and the rest were blinded (rendered stupid) (hardened) (made insensitive).
Romans 11:8 (show verse)
It is written, God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear to this very day. (Deuteronomy 29:4)
Romans 11:9 (show verse)
David says, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and recompense to them.
Romans 11:10 (show verse)
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always. (Psalm 69:23)
Romans 11:11 (show verse)
I ask: Did they stumble and fall? Certainly not! But rather through their fall into sin salvation has come to the nations. This will provoke them to jealousy.
Romans 11:12 (show verse)
Now if their fall into sin means riches to the world, and their decrease means riches of the nations how much more will their full number mean?
Romans 11:13 (show verse)
I speak to you people of the nations. For I am the apostle to the nations and I glorify (honor) (praise) (celebrate) my ministry.
Romans 11:14 (show verse)
If by any means I may provoke those who are of my flesh (fellow countrymen), and might save some of them.
Romans 11:15 (show verse)
If their rejection means reconciliation for the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
Romans 11:16 (show verse)
If the first piece is holy, the lump is also holy. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
Romans 11:17 (show verse)
Some of the branches are broken off. You, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them. Therefore you partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree with them.
Romans 11:18 (show verse)
Do not boast against the branches. But if you boast, you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
Romans 11:19 (show verse)
You will say, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
Romans 11:20 (show verse)
They were broken off because of unbelief! You stand by faith! Do not be conceited but be reverent.
Romans 11:21 (show verse)
God did not spare the natural branches and he will not spare you!
Romans 11:22 (show verse)
Observe both God's kindness and severity. Severity is for those who fail to continue. But kindness is for you as long as you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you will be cut off.
Romans 11:23 (show verse)
If they do not continue in unbelief they will be grafted in. For God is able to graft them in again.
Romans 11:24 (show verse)
If you were cut out of the olive tree that is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a garden olive tree: how much more could these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
Romans 11:25 (show verse)
I do not want you to be ignorant of this secret, lest you should be wise in your own conceits (estimation). Blindness has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the nations comes in.
Romans 11:26 (show verse)
In this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: The deliverer will come out of Zion and will remove ungodliness from Jacob.
Romans 11:27 (show verse)
For this is my covenant with them, when I shall take away their sins.
Romans 11:28 (show verse)
Concerning the good news, they are enemies for your sakes. With reference to the chosen ones, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.
Romans 11:29 (show verse)
The gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.
Romans 11:30 (show verse)
In times past you have not believed (did not obey) God. Yet you have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
Romans 11:31 (show verse)
Even so these also do not believe now. Through the mercy shown they also may obtain mercy.
Romans 11:32 (show verse)
For God has stopped all disobedience so he might show mercy to all.
Romans 11:33 (show verse)
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments. His ways are beyond human understanding!
Romans 11:34 (show verse)
For who has known the mind of Jehovah? Or who has been his counselor? (Isaiah 40:13)
Romans 11:35 (show verse)
Or who has first given to him, that it shall be repaid to him again? (Job 41:11)
Romans 11:36 (show verse)
For from him, and through him, and to him are all things: Glory to him forever! Amen.