{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/romans/11","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T11:25:55.312Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Romans","bookSlug":"romans","chapter":11,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":10,"nextChapter":12,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":36},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"I say then, Has God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"God has not cast away his people which he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture said of Elias? how he makes intercession to God against Israel saying,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Lord, they have killed your prophets, and dig down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"But what said the answer of God to him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks for; but the election has obtained it, and the rest were blinded."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"(According as 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 day."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"And David said, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompense to them:"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"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 fullness?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"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?"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"For if the first fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And if some of the branches be broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree;"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Boast not against the branches. But if you boast, you bore not the root, but the root you."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"You will say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Be not high minded, but fear:"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not you."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also shall be cut off."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"For I would not, brothers, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"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:"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"For this is my covenant to them, when I shall take away their sins."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"For as you in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"For God has concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy on all."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"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!"},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"For who has known the mind of the Lord? or who has been his counselor?"},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"Or who has first given to him, and it shall be recompensed to him again?"},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen."}],"citation":{"inline":"Romans 11 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Romans 11](https://primebible.com/akjv/romans/11)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/romans/11 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}