Romans 11:1-21 ▼

1 I saye then: hath god cast awaye his people? God forbyd. For even I verely am an Israelite of the seed of Abraha and of ye tribe of Beniamin

2 god hath not cast awaye his people which he knew before. Ether wote ye not what the scripture sayth by the mouth of Helias how he maketh intercession to god agaynst Israel sayinge:

3 Lorde they have kylled thy prophetes and dygged doune thyn alters: and I am lefte only and they seke my lyfe.

4 But what sayth the answer of god to him agayne? I have reserved vnto me seven thousande men which have not bowed the knee to Baal.

5 Even so at this tyme ys ther a remnanaunt lefte thorow the eleccion of grace.

6 Yf it be of grace the is it not of workes. For then were grace no moare grace. Yf it be of workes then is it no moare grace. For then were deservyng no lenger deservynge.

7 What then? Israel hath not obtayned that that he sought. No but yet the election hath obtayned it. The remnaunt are blynded

8 accordynge as it is written: God hath geven the the sprete of vnquyetnes: eyes that they shuld not se and eares that they shuld not heare even vnto this daye.

9 And David sayth: Let their table be made a snare to take them with all and an occasion to faule and a rewarde vnto them.

10 Let their eyes be blynded that they se not: and ever bowe doune their backes.

11 I saye then: Have they therfore stombled that they shulde but faule only? God forbyd: but thorowe their faule is salvacio happened vnto the gentyls for to provoke the with all.

12 Wherfore yf the faule of them be the ryches of the worlde: and the mynysshynge of them the ryches of the gentyls: How moche more shuld it be so yf they all beleved.

13 I speake to you gentyls in as moche as I a m the Apostle of ye gentyls I will magnify myn office

14 that I myght provoke them which are my flesshe and myght save some of them.

15 For yf the castynge awaye of them be the reconcylynge of the worlde: what shall the receavynge of them be but lyfe agayne from deeth?

16 For yf one pece be holy the whole heepe is holy. And yf the rote be holy the braunches are holy also.

17 Though some of the brauuches be broken of and thou beynge a wylde olyue tree arte graft in amonge them and made parttaker of ye rote and fatnes of the olyve tree

18 bost not thy selfe agaynst the brauches. For yf thou bost thy selfe remember that thou bearest not the rote but the rote the.

19 Thou wilt saye then: the brauches are broken of that I myght be grafte in.

20 Thou sayest well: because of vnbeleve they are broken of and thou stondest stedfast in fayth.

21 Be not hye mynded but feare seynge that God spared not the naturall braunches lest haply he also spare not the.