Just a little scriptural reminder for any supposed Christian anons going on and on about da Joos…
Romans 11
(Geneva 1599)
(1 Lest the casting off of the Jews should be limited according to the outward appearance, 4 he sheweth that Isaiah was in times past deceived; 16 and that, seeing they have a holy root, 23 many of them likewise shall be holy. 18-24 He exhorteth the Gentiles to be humble, 33 and crieth out, that God’s judgments are unsearchable.)
1 I Demand then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God hath not cast away his people which he knew before. Know ye not what the Scripture saith of Elijah, how he maketh request unto God against Israel, saying,
3 Lord, they have killed thy Prophets, and dug down thine altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life?
4 But what saith the answer of God to him? I have reserved unto myself seven thousand men, which have not bowed the knee to Baal.
5 Even so then at this present time is there a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 And if it be of grace, it is no more of works, or else were grace no more grace; but if it be of works, it is no more grace, or else were work no more work.
7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that he sought, but the election hath obtained it, and the rest have been hardened,
8 According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear unto this day.
9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a net, and a stumblingblock, even for a recompense unto them.
10 Let their eyes be darkened that they see not, and bow down their back always.
11 I demand then, Have they stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid. But through their fall, salvation cometh unto the Gentiles, to provoke them to follow them.
12 Wherefore if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles, how much more shall their abundance be?
13 For in that I speak to you Gentiles, in as much as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office,
14 To try if by any means I might provoke them of my flesh to follow them, and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving be, but life from the dead?
16 For if the firstfruits be holy, so is the whole lump; and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 And though some of the branches be broken off, and thou being a wild Olive tree, wast grafted in for them, and made partaker of the root and fatness of the Olive tree;
18 Boast not thyself against the branches; and if thou boast thyself, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19 Thou wilt say then, The branches are broken off, that I might be grafted in.
20 Well, through unbelief they are broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear.
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed, lest he also spare not thee.
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