Romans 11

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 What I am saying is this: is it possible that God abandoned his people? Out of the question! I too aman Israelite, descended from Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.	1 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see: and bow down their back always.
2 God never abandoned his own people to whom, ages ago, he had given recognition. Do you notremember what scripture says about Elijah and how he made a complaint to God against Israel:	2 dummy verses inserted by amos
3 Lord, they have put your prophets to the sword, torn down your altars. I am the only one left, and now they want to kil me?	3 dummy verses inserted by amos
4 And what was the prophetic answer given? I have spared for myself seven thousand men that havenot bent the knee to Baal.	4 dummy verses inserted by amos
5 In the same way, then, in our own time, there is a remnant, set aside by grace.	5 dummy verses inserted by amos
6 And since it is by grace, it cannot now be by good actions, or grace would not be grace at al !	6 dummy verses inserted by amos
7 What fol ows? Israel failed to find what it was seeking; only those who were chosen found it and therest had their minds hardened;	7 dummy verses inserted by amos
8 just as it says in scripture: God has infused them with a spirit of lethargy; until today they have noteyes to see or ears to hear.	8 dummy verses inserted by amos
9 David too says: May their own table prove a trap for them, a pitfal and a snare; let that be theirretribution.	9 dummy verses inserted by amos
10 May their eyes grow so dim they cannot see, and their backs be bent for ever.	10 dummy verses inserted by amos
11 What I am saying is this: Was this stumbling to lead to their final downfall? Out of the question! Onthe contrary, their failure has brought salvation for the gentiles, in order to stir them to envy.	11 I say then, have they so stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid. But by their offence, salvation is come to the Gentiles, that they may be emulous of them.
12 And if their fal has proved a great gain to the world, and their loss has proved a great gain to thegentiles -- how much greater a gain wil come when all is restored to them!	12 Now if the offence of them be the riches of the world, and the diminution of them, the riches of the Gentiles; how much more the fulness of them?
13 Let me say then to you gentiles that, as far as I am an apostle to the gentiles, I take pride in thiswork of service;	13 For I say to you, Gentiles: as long indeed as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I will honour my ministry,
14 and I want it to be the means of rousing to envy the people who are my own blood-relations and soof saving some of them.	14 If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
15 Since their rejection meant the reconciliation of the world, do you know what their re-acceptance willmean? Nothing less than life from the dead!	15 For if the loss of them be the reconciliation of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16 When the first-fruits are made holy, so is the whole batch; and if the root is holy, so are thebranches.	16 For if the firstfruit be holy, so is the lump also: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 Now suppose that some branches were broken off, and you are wild olive, grafted among the rest toshare with the others the rich sap of the olive tree;	17 And if some of the branches be broken, and thou, being a wild olive, art ingrafted in them, and art made partaker of the root, and of the fatness of the olive tree,
18 then it is not for you to consider yourself superior to the other branches; and if you start feelingproud, think: it is not you that sustain the root, but the root that sustains you.	18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19 You wil say, 'Branches were broken off on purpose for me to be grafted in.' True;	19 Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
20 they through their unbelief were broken off, and you are established through your faith. So it is notpride that you should have, but fear:	20 Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith: be not highminded, but fear.
21 if God did not spare the natural branches, he might not spare you either.	21 For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps he also spare not thee.
22 Remember God's severity as well as his goodness: his severity to those who fel , and his goodnessto you as long as you persevere in it; if not, you too will be cut off.	22 See then the goodness and the severity of God: towards them indeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards thee, the goodness of God, if thou abide in goodness, otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23 And they, if they do not persevere in their unbelief, wil be grafted in; for it is within the power of Godto graft them back again.	23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
24 After al , if you, cut off from what was by nature a wild olive, could then be grafted unnaturally on to acultivated olive, how much easier wil it be for them, the branches that natural y belong there, to be grafted on tothe olive tree which is their own.	24 For if thou wert cut out of the wild olive tree, which is natural to thee; and, contrary to nature, were grafted into the good olive tree; how much more shall they that are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 I want you to be quite certain, brothers, of this mystery, to save you from congratulating yourselveson your own good sense: part of Israel had its mind hardened, but only until the gentiles have whol y come in;	25 For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, (lest you should be wise in your own conceits), that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in.
26 and this is how all Israel will be saved. As scripture says: From Zion will come the Redeemer, he wilremove godlessness from Jacob.	26 And so all Israel should be saved, as it is written: There shall come out of Sion, he that shall deliver, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
27 And this wil be my covenant with them, when I take their sins away.	27 And this is to them my covenant: when I shall take away their sins.
28 As regards the gospel, they are enemies, but for your sake; but as regards those who are God'schoice, they are stil wel loved for the sake of their ancestors.	28 As concerning the gospel, indeed, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are most dear for the sake of the fathers.
29 There is no change of mind on God's part about the gifts he has made or of his choice.	29 For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.
30 Just as you were in the past disobedient to God but now you have been shown mercy, through theirdisobedience;	30 For as you also in times past did not believe God, but now have obtained mercy, through their unbelief;
31 so in the same way they are disobedient now, so that through the mercy shown to you they too wilreceive mercy.	31 So these also now have not believed, for your mercy, that they also may obtain mercy.
32 God has imprisoned al human beings in their own disobedience only to show mercy to them al .	32 For God hath concluded all in unbelief, that he may have mercy on all.
33 How rich and deep are the wisdom and the knowledge of God! We cannot reach to the root of hisdecisions or his ways.	33 O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!
34 Who has ever known the mind of the Lord? Who has ever been his adviser?	34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor?
35 Who has given anything to him, so that his presents come only as a debt returned?	35 Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made him?
36 Everything there is comes from him and is caused by him and exists for him. To him be glory forever! Amen.	36 For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.