{"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/web/romans/11","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T22:02:40.444Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Romans","bookSlug":"romans","chapter":11,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":10,"nextChapter":12,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":36},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"|Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.|"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"But how does God answer him? |I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to 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 it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn't obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"According as it is written, |God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.|"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"David says, |Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always.|"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"You will say then, |Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.|"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"for if God didn't spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"For I don't desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, |There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"This is my covenant to them, when I will take away their sins.|"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing 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 will be repaid to him again?|"},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen."}],"citation":{"inline":"Romans 11 (WEB)","markdown":"[Romans 11](https://primebible.com/web/romans/11)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/romans/11 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}