Bible Book - INDEX

MODERN LITERAL VERSION - 2026 Update

11:1       Therefore, I say, God did not shove away his people, did he? Let it not happen! For^* I am also an Israelite, from the seed of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. {Psa 94:14}

11:2 God did not shove away his people which he knew beforehand. Or do you^° not know what the Scripture says in regard to Elijah? How he petitions God against Israel, saying,

11:3 ‘Lord, they killed your prophets and made ruins of your altars, and I was left alone and they are seeking my life.’ {1Ki. 19:10,14}

11:4 But what does the divine-answer say to him? ‘I left behind for myself seven thousand men, who did not bow the knee to Baal.’ {1Ki. 19:18}

11:5 Therefore, so a remnant has also become according-to the chosen of grace in the current time.

11:6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer from works, otherwise the grace becomes grace no more. But if it is from works, no more is it grace; otherwise work is work no more.

11:7 Therefore, what? What Israel is seeking after, it did not obtain this, but the chosen obtained it and the rest were hardened,

11:8 just-as it has been written, ‘God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes not able to see and ears not able to hear, until this very day.’ {Isa 29:10, 6:9}

11:9 And David says, ‘Let their table become ^*for a snare and ^*for a trap and ^*for an offense and ^*for a repayment to them.

11:10 Let^° their eyes be darkened not to see and bend their back always.’ {Psa 69:22-23}      

11:11 Therefore, I say, They did not trip in-order-that they might fall, did they? Let it not happen! But salvation has come to the Gentiles in their trespass, that^* they might provoke them to jealousy.

11:12 Now if their trespass is the riches of the world and their failure is the riches of the Gentiles; how-much more is their fullness?

11:13 For^* I speak to you^°, the Gentiles, inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my service,

11:14 if somehow I provoke to jealousy the ones who are my flesh and might save some out-of them.

11:15 For^* if the casting away of them is the reconciliation of the world, what is the receiving of them, except life from the dead?      

11:16 Now if the first-fruit is holy, also is the batch and if the root is holy, also are the branches.

11:17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive-tree, were grafted in among them and became a fellow partner of the root and of the plumpness of the olive-tree,

11:18 do not boast against the branches. But if you are boasting against them, you are not bearing the root, but the root bears you.

11:19 Therefore, you will say, Branches were broken off in-order-that I might be grafted in.

11:20 Well; they were broken off in their unbelief but you are standing in the faith. Do not be high-minded, but fear;

11:21 for^* if God did not spare what is according-to nature {i.e., natural} branches; lest neither, he will spare you.

11:22 Therefore, behold the kindness and severity of God, indeed severity upon the ones who fell, but kindness upon you, if you should remain in the kindness of God; otherwise you also will be cut off.

11:23 But also those will be grafted in, if they should not remain in their unbelief, for^* God is able to graft them in again.

11:24 For^* if you were cut off from what is a wild olive-tree according-to nature and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive-tree, how-much more these, the ones according-to nature will be grafted into their own olive-tree?      

11:25 For^* brethren, I do not wish you^° to be ignorant of this mystery (in order that you^° may not be too prudent with your own opinions), that a hardening has partially happened to Israel, till the fullness of the Gentiles should enter.      

11:26 And thus all Israel will be saved, just-as it has been written, ‘He who rescues will come out-of Zion, and he will turn ungodlinesses from Jacob.

11:27 And this is my covenant^* with them, whenever I take away their sins.’ {Isa 59:20-21, 27:9}

11:28 According-to the good-news they are indeed enemies because of you^°, but according-to the choice, they are beloved because of the fathers.

11:29 For^* the gifts^* and the calling {Or: invitation; and in all other instances in the MLV} of God are unregretted.

11:30 For^* just-like you^° were also previously disobedient to God, but now you^° were shown-mercy by their disobedience of these,

11:31 so now these also were disobedient by your^° mercy, in-order-that they themselves might also be shown-mercy.

11:32 For^* God locked up all together in disobedience in-order-that he might show-mercy upon all.      

11:33 O the depth of the riches, and of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and untraceable his ways!

11:34 For^* who knew the mind of the Lord? Or who became his counselor? {Isa 40:13}

11:35 Or who gave-first to him and it will be repaid to him again?

11:36 It is because all things are from him and through him and to him. The glory is for him, forever. Amen.