¶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.

God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.”^*

But how does God answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”^*

Even so then So too, therefore, even at this in the present time also there is a remnant according to the election of chosen by grace^a exists.

And if it is by grace, then it is no longer out of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace.
{But if it is out of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work*.}

¶What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

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.”^*

David says,

“Let their table be made a snare, and a trap,

a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.

¶I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall tripping salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

Now if their fall tripping is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?

For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

if by any means I may somehow provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?

If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

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;

don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.

You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.”

True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

See then the goodness providence and severity stringency of God:. Toward on those who fell, severity stringency; but toward on you, goodness God's providence, if as long as you continue [choose to remain] in his goodness; providence, otherwise you also will be cut off.

They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

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?