24 For if thou wast cut out of the Olive tree, which was wild by [a]nature, and was grafted contrary to nature in a [b]right Olive tree, how much more shall they that are by nature, be grafted in their own Olive tree?

25 [c]For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this secret (lest ye should be arrogant in [d]yourselves) that partly obstinacy is come to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be [e]come in.

26 And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written, (A)The deliverer shall come out of Zion, and shall turn away the ungodliness from Jacob.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 11:24 Understand nature, not as it was first made, but as it was corrupted in Adam, and so derived from him to his posterity.
  2. Romans 11:24 Into the people of the Jews which God had sanctified of his mere grace: and he speaketh of the whole nation, not of every one part.
  3. Romans 11:25 The blindness of the Jews is neither so universal that the Lord hath no elect in that nation, neither shall it be continual: for there shall be a time wherein they also (as the Prophets have forewarned) shall effectually embrace that which they do now so stubbornly for the most part reject and refuse.
  4. Romans 11:25 That ye be not proud within yourselves.
  5. Romans 11:25 Into the Church.

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