MODERN LITERAL VERSION

11:1 Therefore I say, God has not thrust away his people, has he? Let it not happen! For* I am also an Israelite, from the seed of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
11:2 God did not thrust away his people which he knew beforehand. Or do you* not know what the Scripture says of Elijah? How he petitions God against Israel, saying,
11:3 ‘Lord, they have killed your prophets and have made ruins of your altars, and I am left alone and they are seeking my life.' {1Ki. 19:10,14}
11:4 But what does the divine-answer say to him? ‘I have left to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.' {1Ki. 19:18}
11:5 So also, then* in this current time there has also become a remnant according to the chosen of grace.
11:6 But if it is by grace, it is no more from works, otherwise grace becomes grace no more. But if from works, no more is it grace; otherwise work is work no more.
11:7 Then* what? What Israel is seeking after, this it did not obtain, 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 that* they should not see and ears that* they should not hear, until this very day.' {Is. 29:10}
11:9 And David says, ‘Let their table become a snare and a trap and an offense and a repayment to them.
11:10 Let their eyes be darkened that* they might not see and always bow down their backs.' {Ps. 62;22, 23}

11:11 Therefore I say, They have not tripped that* they might fall, have they? Let it not happen! But salvation has come to the Gentiles by their trespass, *that* they might provoke them to jealousy.
11:12 Now if their trespass is the riches of the world and their loss is the riches of the Gentiles; how much more is their fullness?
11:13 For* I speak to you* who are Gentiles, inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my service;
11:14 if somehow I provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and might save some out of them.
11:15 For* if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of them be, except life from the dead?

11:16 Now if the first-fruit is holy, so is the batch and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
11:17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a fellow partner of the root of the plumpness of the olive tree with them.
11:18 Do not boast against the branches, but if are you boasting against them, it is not you who is bearing the root, but the root which is bearing you.
11:19 Therefore you will say, Branches were broken off, that* I might be grafted in.
11:20 Well; they were broken off by their unbelief and so you stand in the faith. Do not be cavalier, but fear;
11:21 for* if God did not spare the natural branches, lest neither will he spare you.
11:22 Therefore, behold the kindness and severity of God, indeed toward those who fell; it is severity upon them, but kindness upon you, if you remain in the kindness of God: otherwise you also will be cut off.
11:23 And also those, if they do not remain in their unbelief will be grafted in; for* God is able to graft them in again.
11:24 For* if you were cut off from what is according to 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?

11:25 For* brethren, I do not wish you* to be ignorant of this mystery (that* you* may not be too prudent with yourselves), that a hardening has become in part to Israel, till the fullness of the Gentiles should come in;
11:26 and all Israel will thus be saved; just-as it has been written, ‘There will come out of Zion, he who rescues and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
11:27 And this is my covenant* to them, when I may take away their sins.' {Is. 59:20-21, 27:9}
11:28 They are indeed enemies because of you* according to the good-news, but according to the choice, they are beloved because of the fathers.
11:29 For* the gifts* and the calling of God are unregrettable.
11:30 For* as you* were also previously disobedient to God, but now you* have been shown-mercy by their disobedience,
11:31 so now these also have been disobedient, that* in your* mercy, they might also be shown-mercy.
11:32 For* God has locked up together all to disobedience, that* he might show-mercy upon all.

11:33 O the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and untraceable his ways!
11:34 For* who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has become his counselor?
11:35 Or who has first-given 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. To him is the glory forever. Amen.