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## Romans 11:1-31 in Context (Verses 1–34 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/romans/11/1) 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.
 
 [2 ](/kjv/romans/11/2) 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,
 
 [3 ](/kjv/romans/11/3) Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
 
 [4 ](/kjv/romans/11/4) 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.
 
 [5 ](/kjv/romans/11/5) Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
 
 [6 ](/kjv/romans/11/6) 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.
 
 [7 ](/kjv/romans/11/7) What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
 
 [8 ](/kjv/romans/11/8) (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.
 
 [9 ](/kjv/romans/11/9) And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
 
 [10 ](/kjv/romans/11/10) Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
 
 [11 ](/kjv/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 ](/kjv/romans/11/12) 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 ](/kjv/romans/11/13) For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
 
 [14 ](/kjv/romans/11/14) If by any means I may provoke to emulation *them which are* my flesh, and might save some of them.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/romans/11/15) 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 ](/kjv/romans/11/16) For if the firstfruit *be* holy, the lump *is* also *holy*: and if the root *be* holy, so *are* the branches.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/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 ](/kjv/romans/11/18) Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/romans/11/19) Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/romans/11/20) Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
 
 [21 ](/kjv/romans/11/21) For if God spared not the natural branches, *take heed* lest he also spare not thee.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/romans/11/22) 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 ](/kjv/romans/11/23) And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
 
 [24 ](/kjv/romans/11/24) 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 ](/kjv/romans/11/25) 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 ](/kjv/romans/11/26) And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
 
 [27 ](/kjv/romans/11/27) For this *is* my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
 
 [28 ](/kjv/romans/11/28) As concerning the gospel, *they are* enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, *they are* beloved for the fathers’ sakes.
 
 [29 ](/kjv/romans/11/29) For the gifts and calling of God *are* without repentance.
 
 [30 ](/kjv/romans/11/30) For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
 
 [31 ](/kjv/romans/11/31) Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
 
 [32 ](/kjv/romans/11/32) For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
 
 [33 ](/kjv/romans/11/33) 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 ](/kjv/romans/11/34) For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
 
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