Romans 10:17-11:16

English Standard Version

¹⁷So ^(A)faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

¹⁸But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have, for

^(B)“Their voice has gone out ^(C)to all the earth,
and their words to the ends of the world.”

¹⁹But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says,

^(D)“I will ^(E)make you jealous of those who are not a nation;
with a ^(F)foolish nation I will make you angry.”

²⁰Then Isaiah is so bold as to say,

^(G)“I have been found by those who did not seek me;
I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me.”

²¹But of Israel he says, ^(H)“All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

The Remnant of Israel

11 I ask, then, ^(I)has God rejected his people? By no means! For ^(J)I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham,^[a] a member of the tribe of Benjamin. ²^(K)God has not rejected his people whom he ^(L)foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel? ³^(M)“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.” ⁴But what is God's reply to him? ^(N)“I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” ⁵So too at the present time there is ^(O)a remnant, chosen by grace. ⁶^(P)But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

⁷What then? ^(Q)Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest ^(R)were hardened, ⁸as it is written,

^(S)“God gave them a spirit of stupor,
^(T)eyes that would not see
and ears that would not hear,
down to this very day.”

⁹And David says,

^(U)“Let their table become a snare and a trap,
a stumbling block and a retribution for them;
¹⁰let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,
and bend their backs forever.”

Gentiles Grafted In

¹¹So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather, through their trespass ^(V)salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous. ¹²Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion^[b] mean!

¹³Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as ^(W)I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry ¹⁴in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and ^(X)thus save some of them. ¹⁵For if their rejection means ^(Y)the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead? ¹⁶^(Z)If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.