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God has not rejected His peoplewhom He foreknew. Or do you not knowwhat the Scripturesays in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with GodagainstIsrael?
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I saythen, they did not stumbleso as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their transgressionsalvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.
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But ifsome of the branches were brokenoff, and you, being a wildolive, were grafted in among them and becamepartaker with them of the richroot of the olivetree,
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Beholdthen the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God'skindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cutoff.
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For if you were cutoff from what is by nature a wildolivetree, and were graftedcontrary to nature into a cultivatedolivetree, howmuchmore will thesewho are the natural* branches be grafted into their ownolivetree?
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For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of thismystery-so* that you will not be wise in your ownestimation -that a partialhardening has happened to Israeluntil the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;
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From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of God's choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers;