Modern Literal Version
[Romans 11]


     11:1 Therefore I say, God has not thrust away his people, has he? Let it not happen! For* I am also an Israelite, from the seed of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 11:2 God did not thrust away his people which he knew beforehand. Or do you* not know what the Scripture says of Elijah? How he petitions God against Israel, saying, 11:3 НLord, they have killed your prophets and have made ruins of your altars, and I am left alone and they are seeking my life.М {1Ki. 19:10,14} 11:4But what does the divine-answer say to him? НI have left to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.М {1Ki. 19:18} 11:5 So also, then* in this current time there has also become a remnant according to the chosen of grace. 11:6 But if it is by grace, it is no more from works, otherwise grace becomes grace no more. But if from works, no more is it grace; otherwise work is work no more. 11:7 Then* what? What Israel is seeking after, this it did not obtain; but the chosen obtained it and the rest were hardened; 11:8 just-as it has been written, НGod gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that* they should not see and ears that* they should not hear, until this very day.М {Is. 29:10} 11:9 And David says, НLet their table become a snare and a trap and an offense and a repayment to them. 11:10 Let their eyes be darkened that* they might not see and always bow down their backs.М{Ps. 62;22, 23}


     11:11 Therefore I say, They have not tripped that* they might fall, have they? Let it not happen! But salvation has come to the Gentiles by their trespass, *that* they might provoke them to jealousy. 11:12 Now if their trespass is the riches of the world and their loss is the riches of the Gentiles; how much more is their fullness? 11:13 For* I speak to you* who are Gentiles, inasmuch as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my service; 11:14 if somehow I provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and might save some out of them. 11:15 For* if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of them be, except life from the dead?

     11:16 And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the batch and if the root is holy, so are the branches. 11:17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a fellow partner of the root of the plumpness of the olive tree with them. 11:18Do not boast against the branches; but if are you boasting against them, it is not you who is bearing the root, but the root which is bearing you. 11:19 Therefore you will say, Branches were broken off, that* I might be grafted in. 11:20 Well; they were broken off by their unbelief and so you stand in the faith. Do not be cavalier, but fear; 11:21 for* if God did not spare the natural branches, lest neither will he spare you. 11:22 Therefore behold the kindness and severity of God toward those who fell; it is severity upon them; but kindness upon you, if you remain in the kindness of God: otherwise you also will be cut off. 11:23 And also those, if they do not remain in their unbelief will be grafted in; for* God is able to graft them in again. 11:24 For* if you were cut off from what is according to 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?


     11:25 For* brethren, I do not wish you* to be ignorant of this mystery (that* you* may not be tooprudent with yourselves), that a hardening has happened in part to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles should come in; 11:26 and all Israel will thus be saved; just-as it has been written, НThere will come out of Zion, he who rescues and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob. 11:27 And this is my covenant* to them, when I may take away their sins.М {Is. 59:20-21, 27:9} 11:28 They areenemies because of you* according to the good-news; but according to the choice, they arebeloved because of the fathers. 11:29 For* the gifts* and the calling of God are unregrettable. 11:30For* as you* were also previously disobedient to God, but now you* have been shown-mercy by their disobedience, 11:31 so now these also have been disobedient, that* in your mercy, they might also be shown-mercy. 11:32 For* God has locked up together all to disobedience, that* he might have mercy upon all.


     11:33 O the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and untraceable his ways! 11:34 For* who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has become his counselor? 11:35 Or who has first-given to him and it will be repaid to him again? 11:36 It is because all things are from him and through him and to him. To him is the glory forever. Amen.



Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix , copyright 1987, 1999, 2013 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee.
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