Romains 11.8
English standard version

Une mise à l’écart ni totale ni définitive

¹ I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin
² God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?
³ Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.
⁴ But what is God's reply to him? I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.
⁵ So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
⁶ But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
⁷ What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,
⁸ as it is written,
God gave them a spirit of stupor,
eyes that would not see
and ears that would not hear,
down to this very day.
⁹ And David says,
Let their table become a snare and a trap,
a stumbling block and a retribution for them;
¹⁰ let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,
and bend their backs forever.
¹¹ So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather, through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.
¹² Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!
¹³ Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry
¹⁴ in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.
¹⁵ For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
¹⁶ If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
¹⁷ But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree,
¹⁸ do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.
¹⁹ Then you will say, Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.
²⁰ That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear.
²¹ For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
²² Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.
²³ And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.
²⁴ For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.
²⁵ Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
²⁶ And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written,
The Deliverer will come from Zion,
he will banish ungodliness from Jacob;
²⁷ and this will be my covenant with them
when I take away their sins.
²⁸ As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.
²⁹ For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
³⁰ For just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,
³¹ so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may now receive mercy.
³² For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.
³³ Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
³⁴ For who has known the mind of the Lord,
or who has been his counselor?
³⁵ Or who has given a gift to him
that he might be repaid?
³⁶ For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.