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I 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.

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God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,

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Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

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But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to [the image of] Baal.

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Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

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And if by grace, then [is it] no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if [it be] of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

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What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded

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(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear) unto this day.

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And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:

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Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

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I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but [rather] through their fall salvation [is come] unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.

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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 fulness?

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For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:

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If by any means I may provoke to emulation [them which are] my flesh, and might save some of them.

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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?

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For if the firstfruit [be] holy, the lump [is] also [holy]: and if the root [be] holy, so [are] the branches.

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And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree

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Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

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Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.

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Well because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

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For if God spared not the natural branches, [take heed] lest he also spare not thee.

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Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in [his] goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

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And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.

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For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural [branches], be graffed into their own olive tree?