3. “Adonai, they have killed your prophets, they have destroyed your altars; I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.”
4. But what is the divine response to him? “I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
5. So in the same way also at this present time there has come to be a remnant according to God’s gracious choice.
6. But if it is by grace, it is no longer by works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
7. What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained; but the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened—
8. just as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes not to see and ears not to hear, until this very day.”
9. And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them.
10. Let their eyes be darkened so they do not see, and bend their back continually.”
11. I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their false step salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke Israel to jealousy.
12. Now if their transgression leads to riches for the world, and their loss riches for the Gentiles, then how much more their fullness!
13. But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. Insofar as I am an emissary to the Gentiles, I spotlight my ministry
14. if somehow I might provoke to jealousy my own flesh and blood and save some of them.
15. For if their rejection leads to the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
16. If the firstfruit is holy, so is the whole batch of dough; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17. But if some of the branches were broken off and you—being a wild olive—were grafted in among them and became a partaker of the root of the olive tree with its richness,
18. do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, it is not you who support the root but the root supports you.
19. You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”