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³⁰What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
³¹But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
³²Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
³³As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

10Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
²For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
³For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
⁴For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
⁵For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
⁶But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
⁷Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
⁸But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
⁹That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
¹⁰For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
¹¹For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
¹²For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
¹³For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

11I 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.
²God 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,
¹¹I 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.
¹²Now 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?
¹⁵For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
¹⁶For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
¹⁷And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
¹⁸Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
¹⁹Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
²⁰Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
²¹For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
²²Behold 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.
²³And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graff them in again.
²⁴For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
²⁵For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
²⁶And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
²⁷For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
²⁸As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father’s sakes.
²⁹For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
³⁰For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
³¹Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
³²For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.