--- title: "Romans 11 — World English Bible | Favorite Scriptures" description: "Read Romans 11 in the World English Bible. Free Bible reading, no account needed. Browse books and chapters, then save favorite passages in your personal library." last_updated: "2026-10-08" doc_version: "1" language: "en" canonical: "https://favoritescriptures.com/bible/romans/11" --- [Home](/)/[Bible](/bible)/[Romans](/bible/romans)/11 World English Bible # Romans 11 [1](#verse-1) I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. [2](#verse-2) God didn’t reject his people, whom he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel: [3](#verse-3) “Lord, they have killed your prophets. They have broken down your altars. I am left alone, and they seek my life.” [4](#verse-4) But how does God answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” [5](#verse-5) Even so too at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. [6](#verse-6) And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work. [7](#verse-7) What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened. [8](#verse-8) According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.” [9](#verse-9) David says, “Let their table be made a snare, a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them. [10](#verse-10) Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Always keep their backs bent.” [11](#verse-11) I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. [12](#verse-12) Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness! [13](#verse-13) For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry, [14](#verse-14) if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them. [15](#verse-15) For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead? [16](#verse-16) If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches. [17](#verse-17) But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree, [18](#verse-18) don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you. [19](#verse-19) You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.” [20](#verse-20) True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear; [21](#verse-21) for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. [22](#verse-22) See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off. [23](#verse-23) They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. [24](#verse-24) For if you were cut out of that which is by 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? [25](#verse-25) For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, [26](#verse-26) and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob. [27](#verse-27) This is my covenant with them, when I will take away their sins.” [28](#verse-28) Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake. [29](#verse-29) For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. [30](#verse-30) For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, [31](#verse-31) even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy. [32](#verse-32) For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all. [33](#verse-33) Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out! [34](#verse-34) “For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?” [35](#verse-35) “Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?” [36](#verse-36) For of him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen. [← Romans 10](/bible/romans/10)[Romans 12 →](/bible/romans/12) World English Bible · Public domain ## Keep what speaks to you. Create a free library to save passages, highlight verses, and keep your study notes together. 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