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But I say: Has Elohim cast off his people? Far be it. For I also am of Yisrael, of the seed of Avraham, of the tribe of Benyamin.
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But I say: Has Elohim cast off his people? Far be it. For I also am of Yisrael, of the seed of Avraham, of the tribe of Benyamin.
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Elohim has not cast off his people whom he knew from before. Or do you not know what he said in the writing of Eliyahu, when he complained to Elohim against Yisrael and said:
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My Master, they have killed your prophets and have thrown down your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.
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And it was said to him by revelation: Look, I have left for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed their knees and have not worshipped Baal.
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So also in this time a remnant is left by the election of grace.
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But if by grace, it is not from works: otherwise grace is not grace. And if by works, it is not from grace: otherwise work is not work.
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What then? Yisrael did not find what it was seeking. But the election found it, and the rest of them were blinded in their heart.
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as it is written: Elohim gave them a spirit of stupor, and eyes that they would not see with them, and ears that they would not hear, until this very day.
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And Dawid again says: Let their table become a snare before them, and their recompense a stumbling block.
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Let their eyes be darkened so they will not see, and let their back be bowed down at all times.
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But I say: Have they stumbled so as to fall? Far be it. Rather, by their stumbling life has come to the nations, for awakening their jealousy.
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And if their stumbling was riches to the world, and their condemnation riches to the nations, how much more their fullness?
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But to you Gentiles I am speaking: I who am an apostle of the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
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if perhaps I may provoke jealousy in the children of my flesh, and give life to some of them.
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For if their rejection was a reconciliation of the world, how much more then will their return be but life from among the dead?
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And if the first-fruits are holy, then the lump is also: and if the root is holy, then also the branches.
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And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive, were grafted in their place, and became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive;
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do not boast over the branches. And if you boast, you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
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And perhaps you will say, The branches were broken off so that I might be grafted into their place.
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Well said. These were broken off because they did not believe, but you stand by faith. Do not be lifted up in your mind, but fear.
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For if Elohim did not spare the branches that are from their nature, perhaps he will not spare you either.
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Look therefore at the kindness and the severity of Elohim: on those who fell, severity; but on you, kindness, if you continue in that kindness; and if not, you also will be broken off.
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And they, if they do not continue in their lack of faith, even they will be grafted in; for Elohim is able to graft them in again.
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For if you, who are from the wild olive tree that is natural to you, were broken off and contrary to your nature were grafted into the good olive tree, how much more then may they be grafted into their natural olive tree?
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For I want you to know this mystery, my brothers, so that you will not be wise in the thinking of your own selves: that a blindness of heart has in some measure come upon Yisrael until the fullness of the peoples comes in.
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And then all Yisrael will live, as it is written: A deliverer will come from Tsiyon and will turn away iniquity from Ya'akov.
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And then they will have the covenant that is from me, when I have forgiven them their sins.
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But in the good news they are enemies for your sake, and in the election they are beloved for the fathers' sake.
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For Elohim does not change in his free gift and in his calling.
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For as you also were formerly not persuaded toward Elohim, and now you have obtained mercy because of their not being persuaded;
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So also these have not been persuaded now to the mercy that is upon you, that mercy may also be upon them.
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For Elohim has shut up every man in disobedience, that he may have mercy on every man.
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O the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of Elohim! For man has not searched out his judgments, and his ways are not tracked.
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For who has known the mind of Master YHWH? Or who has been a counselor to him?
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And who has first given to him, and then received from him?
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Because all is from him, and all in him, and all in his hand: to him be praises and blessings forever and ever. Amen.