Romanos 11

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 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 "Lord, they have killed your prophets. They have broken down your altars. I am left alone, and they seek my life."✝11:3 1 Kings 19:10,14 4 But how does God answer him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."✝11:4 1 Kings 19:18 5 Even so too at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 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 What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened. 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."✝11:8 Deuteronomy 29:4; Isaiah 29:10

9 David says,

"Let their table be made a snare, a trap,

a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.

10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see.

Always keep their backs bent."✝11:10 Psalms 69:22,23

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

13 For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry, 14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them. 15 For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?

16 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches. 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 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 You will say then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in." 20 True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear; 21 for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. 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 They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 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 For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers,*11:25 The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings." 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 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 This is my covenant with them,

when I will take away their sins."✝11:27 Isaiah 59:20-21; 27:9; Jeremiah 31:33-34

28 Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. 30 For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, 31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy. 32 For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.

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 "For who has known the mind of the Lord?

Or who has been his counselor?"✝11:34 Isaiah 40:13

35 "Or who has first given to him,

and it will be repaid to him again?"✝11:35 Job 41:11

36 For of him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

Tā te Atua Atawhai ki a Īharaira

1 Nā, ko tāku kupu tēnei: kua peia oti e te Atua tāna iwi? Kāhore rāpea! Nō Īharaira anō hoki ahau, nō te uri o Āperahama, nō tō Pineamine iwi. 2 Kāhore hoki te Atua i pei i tāna iwi i mōhio ai i mua. Kāhore oti koutou i mātau ki te kōrero a te karaipiture i tā Irāia? I īnoi rā hoki ia ki te Atua, i whakahē i a Īharaira, i mea, 3 "E te Ariki, kua patua e rātou āu poropiti, kua whakahoroa āu āta; ko ahau anake hoki, kua mahue nei, ā, e whai ana rātou kia patua ahau." 4 Heoi, e pēhea ana te whakahoki a te Atua ki a ia? "E whitu mano tāngata kua waiho e ahau māku, kāhore nei i piko te turi ki a Paara." 5 Waihoki i te wā nei anō, tērā anō he toenga, he whiriwhiringa nā te aroha noa. 6 Ki te mea ia nā te aroha noa, ehara i te mea nā ngā mahi; pēnei ehara te aroha noa i te aroha noa.

7 Ha, he pēhea rā? Ko tā Īharaira e rapu nei, kīhai tēnei i taea e ia; otirā kua taea e te hunga whiriwhiri, ko ērā atu ia i whakapakeketia; 8 ko te mea hoki ia i tuhituhia,

"Kua hoatu ki a rātou e te Atua he wairua hiamoe,

he kanohi e kore ai rātou e kite,

he taringa e kore ai e rongo; ā taea noatia tēnei rā."

9 E mea ana hoki a Rāwiri,

"Kia whakatupu māhanga tō rātou tēpu,

hei rore hoki, hei tūtukitanga waewae, hei utu anō ki a rātou;

10 kia whakapōuritia ō rātou kanohi, kia kaua rātou e kite,

ā, kia whakapikoa tonutia iho e koe tō rātou tuarā."

11 Nā, ko tāku kupu tēnei, he tūtuki rānei tō rātou e hinga rawa ai? Kāhore rāpea! Engari, nā tō rātou hinga i puta ai te ora ki ngā tauiwi, he mea kia hae ai rātou. 12 Nā, ki te mea hei taonga mō te ao tō rātou hinganga, hei taonga anō mō ngā tauiwi tō rātou whakaitinga; tērā noa ake i tō rātou whakanuinga?

Te Whakaoranga o ngā Tauiwi

13 Ki a koutou, ki ngā tauiwi tēnei kupu āku, i te mea he āpōtoro ahau ki ngā tauiwi, e whakanui ana ahau i tāku mahi minita, 14 me kore e hae ngā tāngata o tōku kikokiko, kia ora ai ētahi o rātou i ahau. 15 Mehemea hoki ko tō rātou makanga atu hei houhanga rongo mō te ao, ka aha tō rātou tangohanga mai? He teka ianei he oranga ake i roto i te hunga mate?

16 Ki te mea hoki he tapu te mea mātāmua, ka pērā anō te pūranga; ki te tapu hoki te pakiaka, e pērā anō ngā manga. 17 Engari, ki te mea kua whatia atu ētahi o ngā manga, ā, ka honoa mai koe, te ōriwa ngahere, ki roto i ngā manga, ka whiwhi ngātahi ki te pakiaka o te mōmonatanga o te ōriwa; 18 aua e whakapehapeha ki ngā manga. Ki te whakapehapeha ia koe, ehara i te mea nāu i mau ake ai te pakiaka, engari, nā te pakiaka koe.

19 Nā, tērā koe e mea, "I whatia atu ngā manga, kia honoa iho ai ahau." 20 Āe rā; nā te whakapono kore rātou i whatia atu ai, nā tōu whakapono koe i tū ai. Aua e whakakake, engari kia wehi. 21 Nā, ki te mea kīhai i tohungia ngā manga tupu e te Atua, e kore anō ia e tohu i a koe.

22 Nā, tirohia iho te ngāwari me te pakeke o te Atua: pakeke ki te hunga i hinga; ngāwari ki a koe, ki te ū koe ki tāna tikanga ngāwari; ki te kāhore, ka tapahia hoki koe. 23 Me rātou anō, ki te kore e ū ki tō rātou whakapono kore, ka honoa anō; e taea hoki rātou e te Atua te hono mai anō. 24 Mehemea hoki ka tapahia mai koe i te ōriwa ngahere, ā, ka honoa mai ki te ōriwa pai, he mea rerekē i te tikanga; tērā noa ake te honoa o ēnei, o ngā manga tupu, ki tō rātou ōriwa anō.

Tā te Atua Atawhai ki te Hunga Katoa

25 E kore hoki ahau e pai, e ōku tēina, kia kūware koutou ki tēnei mea ngaro, kei mea noa koutou he mātau koutou, kua tau tētahi wāhi o te whakapakeketanga ki a Īharaira, kia riro mai rā anō te tokomahatanga o ngā tauiwi. 26 Ko reira a Īharaira katoa ora ai; ko te mea hoki ia i tuhituhia:

"Tērā e puta mai te Kaiwhakaora i Hiona,

māna e kaupare te karakiakore i a Hākopa.

27 Ko tāku kawenata hoki tēnei ki a rātou,

ina tangohia atu e ahau ō rātou hara."

28 Nā, i runga i te rongopai he hoariri rātou, he whakaaro ki a koutou; i runga ia i te whiriwhiringa, e arohaina ana rātou, he whakaaro ki ngā mātua. 29 I ā te Atua hōmaitanga hoki, i tāna karangatanga, kāhore e puta kē te whakaaro. 30 Ka rite hoki ki a koutou kīhai i whakapono i mua ki te Atua, ināianei ia kua tohungia, he mea nā tō rātou whakapono kore; 31 waihoki kua kāhore ēnei i whakapono ināianei, kia tohungia ai anō rātou i runga i te mahi tohu i whiwhi nei koutou. 32 Kua oti hoki te katoa te kōpani e te Atua ki roto ki te whakateka, he mea kia tohungia ai e ia te katoa.

Whakamoemiti ki te Atua

33 Anō te hōhonu, te hua ngātahi hoki o te whakaaro o te Atua me tōna mōhio!

E kore āna tikanga e taea te rapu,

ōna huarahi te whakataki!

34 "Ko wai hoki te mōhio ana ki te hinengaro o te Ariki?

Ko wai hoki tōna hoa whakatakoto whakaaro?

35 Ko tā wai hoki kua mātua hoatu ki a ia,

ā, ka whakahokia mai he utu ki a ia?"

36 Ko ngā mea katoa nei hoki, nāna, ā kei runga anō i a ia, ā, e ahu ana hoki ki a ia. Mōna te korōria ake tonu atu! Āmine.