1I 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.stylus2 Corinthians 11:22, 2 Corinthians 11:22, 1 Samuel 12:22, 1 Samuel 12:22, Philippians 3:52God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture saith of Elias, how he calleth on God against Israel?stylusPsalms 94:14, Romans 8:29, Romans 8:30, Psalms 94:14, Romans 8:293Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they have dug down thy altars. And I am left alone: and they seek my life.stylus1 Kings 19:10, 1 Kings 19:18, 1 Kings 19:10, 1 Kings 19:18, 1 Kings 18:44But what saith the divine answer to him? I have left me seven thousand men that have not bowed their knees to Baal.stylus1 Kings 19:18, 1 Kings 19:18, Numbers 25:3, Numbers 25:3, Jeremiah 19:55Even so then, at this present time also, there is a remnant saved according to the election of grace.stylusRomans 9:27, Romans 9:27, Ephesians 1:5, Ephesians 1:6, Romans 9:116And if by grace, it is not now by works: otherwise grace is no more grace.stylus2 Timothy 1:9, 2 Timothy 1:9, Galatians 2:21, Galatians 2:21, Romans 4:47What then? That which Israel sought, he hath not obtained: but the election hath obtained it. And the rest have been blinded.stylusRomans 9:18, 2 Corinthians 4:4, Romans 9:18, 2 Corinthians 4:4, Romans 11:58As it is written: God hath given them the spirit of insensibility; eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, until this present day.stylusDeuteronomy 29:4, Deuteronomy 29:4, Isaiah 29:10, Isaiah 29:10, Ezekiel 12:29And David saith: Let their table be made a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a recompense unto them.stylusPsalms 69:22, Psalms 69:23, Psalms 69:22, Psalms 69:23, Luke 16:1910Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see: and bow down their back always.stylusPsalms 69:23, Psalms 69:23, Deuteronomy 28:64, Deuteronomy 28:68, Deuteronomy 28:6411I say then: Have they so stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid! But by their offence salvation is come to the Gentiles, that they may be emulous of them.stylusActs 13:46, Acts 13:48, Acts 13:46, Acts 13:48, Romans 11:3112Now if the offence of them be the riches of the world and the diminution of them the riches of the Gentiles: how much more the fulness of them?stylusRomans 11:25, Romans 11:25, Romans 11:15, Colossians 1:27, Romans 11:1513For I say to you, Gentiles: As long indeed as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I will honour my ministry,stylusActs 9:15, Acts 9:15, 2 Timothy 1:11, 2 Timothy 1:12, 2 Timothy 1:1114If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my flesh and may save some of them.stylus1 Corinthians 7:16, 1 Corinthians 7:16, 1 Timothy 4:16, 1 Timothy 4:16, Titus 3:515For if the loss of them be the reconciliation of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?stylusRomans 5:10, Romans 5:11, Ephesians 1:10, Romans 5:10, Romans 5:1116For if the firstfruit be holy, so is the lump also: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.stylusProverbs 3:9, James 1:18, Ezekiel 44:30, Proverbs 3:9, James 1:1817And if some of the branches be broken and thou, being a wild olive, art ingrafted in them and art made partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree:stylusEphesians 2:11, Ephesians 2:13, Ephesians 2:11, Ephesians 2:13, Ephesians 3:618Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root: but the root thee.stylus1 Corinthians 10:12, 1 Corinthians 10:12, Romans 11:20, Romans 11:20, Ephesians 2:1919Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.stylusRomans 11:17, Romans 11:17, Romans 11:23, Romans 11:24, Romans 11:1120Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear.stylusRomans 12:16, Romans 12:16, 2 Corinthians 1:24, 2 Corinthians 1:24, 1 Corinthians 10:1221For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps also he spare not thee.stylusJeremiah 25:29, Jeremiah 49:12, 2 Peter 2:4, 2 Peter 2:9, Jeremiah 25:2922See then the goodness and the severity of God: towards them indeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards thee, the goodness of God, if thou abide in goodness. Otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.stylusHebrews 3:14, Hebrews 3:14, 1 Corinthians 15:2, Hebrews 3:6, 1 Corinthians 15:223And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.stylus2 Corinthians 3:16, 2 Corinthians 3:16, Zechariah 12:10, Zechariah 12:10, Matthew 23:3924For if thou were cut out of the wild olive tree, which is natural to thee; and, contrary to nature, wert grafted into the good olive tree: how much more shall they that are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree?stylusRomans 11:17, Romans 11:18, Romans 11:17, Romans 11:18, Romans 11:3025For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery (lest you should be wise in your own conceits) that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in.stylusLuke 21:24, Luke 21:24, 2 Corinthians 3:14, 2 Corinthians 3:16, 2 Corinthians 3:1426And so all Israel should be saved, as it is written: There shall come out of Sion, he that shall deliver and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.stylusIsaiah 59:20, Isaiah 59:20, Jeremiah 31:31, Jeremiah 31:37, Jeremiah 31:3127And this is to them my covenant: when I shall take away their sins.stylusJeremiah 31:31, Jeremiah 31:34, Jeremiah 31:31, Jeremiah 31:34, Isaiah 27:928As concerning the gospel, indeed, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are most dear for the sake of the fathers.stylusDeuteronomy 10:15, Deuteronomy 10:15, Deuteronomy 7:7, Deuteronomy 7:8, Deuteronomy 7:729For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.stylusHebrews 7:21, Hebrews 7:21, Numbers 23:19, Numbers 23:19, Malachi 3:630For as you also in times past did not believe God, but now have obtained mercy, through their unbelief:stylusColossians 3:7, Colossians 3:7, Ephesians 2:1, Ephesians 2:2, 1 Corinthians 7:2531So these also now have not believed, for your mercy, that they also may obtain mercy.stylusRomans 10:16, Romans 11:15, Romans 11:25, Romans 10:16, Romans 11:1532For God hath concluded all in unbelief, that he may have mercy on all.stylusGalatians 3:22, Galatians 3:22, Romans 3:9, Romans 3:9, 1 Timothy 2:433O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!stylusJob 5:9, Job 5:9, Job 11:7, Job 11:9, Job 11:734For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor?stylusIsaiah 40:13, Isaiah 40:13, 1 Corinthians 2:16, 1 Corinthians 2:16, Job 15:835Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made him?stylusJob 41:11, Job 41:11, Job 35:7, Job 35:7, 1 Corinthians 4:736For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.stylus1 Corinthians 8:6, 1 Corinthians 8:6, Colossians 1:15, Colossians 1:17, Colossians 1:15