¹Then I ask, did God reject his people? Never would it be! For I myself am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

²God did not reject his people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know in Elijah what the Scripture says, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,

³Lord, they have killed your prophets, and they have torn down your altars, and I myself were left alone, and they are seeking my life.

⁴But what was the divine answer spoken to him? I have left to Myself seven thousand men who did not bow the knee to Baal.

⁵Then thus also in the present appointed-time there has been a remnant according to the election of favor.

⁶Now if by favor, no longer from works; otherwise the favor no longer would be favor. But if from works, no longer is it favor, since the work no longer is work.

⁷Then what? What Israel is seeking, this it has not obtained, but the elect obtained it; and the rest were hardened,

⁸Even as it has been written: God gave to them a spirit of stupor, eyes not to see and ears not to hear, unto the day of today.

⁹And David says: Their table should be for a snare and for a trap and for a stumbling block and for a retribution to them;

¹⁰Their eyes should be darkened, not to see, and their backs bend over for all times.

¹¹Then I say, did they stumble so that they may fall? Never would it be! But by their trespass is the salvation to the nations, so as to provoke them to jealousy.

¹²However if their trespass is the riches of the world and their failure the riches of the nations, how much more their fullness?

¹³Now to you the nations I am speaking; therefore upon as much as I myself indeed am a sent one of the nations, I magnify my ministry,

¹⁴If at all I will provoke to jealousy my flesh and will rescue some of them.

¹⁵For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will be the acceptance except life out from the dead?

¹⁶Now if the firstfruit is holy, also the lump; and if the root is holy, also the branches.

¹⁷However if some of the branches were broken off, and you yourself being a wild olive tree were grafted in among them and have become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,

¹⁸Do not boast over the branches; but if you boast against them, you yourself do not support the root, but the root supports you.

¹⁹Then you will say, The branches were broken off that I myself may be grafted in.

²⁰Rightly so; by the distrust they were broken off, however you yourself have stood by trust. But be not high minded; be afraid;

²¹For if God did not spare the branches according to nature, perhaps neither will He spare you.

²²Therefore behold the kindness and severity of God; upon those who fell indeed severity, however toward you the kindness of God, if you shall continue in the kindness; otherwise also you yourself will be cut off.

²³And they too, unless they shall continue in the distrust, then they will be grafted in; for God is able again to graft them in;

²⁴For if you yourself were cut off out of the wild olive tree according to nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more these who are according to nature will be grafted into their own olive tree?

²⁵For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, that you may not be wise beside yourselves, that a hardening in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the nations may come in,

²⁶And so all Israel will be saved, even as it has been written: The One Who delivers will come out of Zion, and He will remove ungodliness from Jacob;

²⁷And this is the covenant from Me to them, when I may take away their sins.

²⁸However as regards the good news indeed they are enemies on your account, as regards the election beloved on account of the patriarchs;

²⁹For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

³⁰Just as you yourselves once were disobedient to God, but now were shown mercy through their disobedience,

³¹So also these now were disobedient to your compassion, so that also they themselves now may have mercy shown them.

³²For God has bound up the all in disobedience, that He may show mercy to the all.

³³O the depth of riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments and untraceable his ways!

³⁴For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?

³⁵Or who has first given to Him, and it will be recompensed to him?

³⁶For from Him and through Him and unto Him are all things; to Him be the glory forever! Amen.