Romans

以色列的余民

1我且说， 神弃绝了他的百姓吗？断乎没有！因为我也是以色列人，亚伯拉罕的后裔，属便雅悯支派的。

2神并没有弃绝他预先所知道的百姓。你们岂不晓得经上论到以利亚是怎么说的呢？他在 神面前怎样控告以色列人说：

3「主啊，他们杀了你的先知，拆了你的祭坛，只剩下我一个人；他们还要寻索我的命。」

4神的回话是怎么说的呢？他说：「我为自己留下七千人，是未曾向巴力屈膝的。」

5如今也是这样，照着拣选的恩典，还有所留的余数。

6既是出于恩典，就不在乎行为；不然，恩典就不是恩典了。

7这是怎么样呢？以色列人所求的，他们没有得着。惟有蒙拣选的人得着了；其余的就成了顽梗不化的。

8如经上所记：神给他们昏迷的心， 眼睛不能看见， 耳朵不能听见， 直到今日。

9大卫也说：愿他们的筵席变为网罗，变为机槛， 变为绊脚石，作他们的报应。

10愿他们的眼睛昏蒙，不得看见； 愿你时常弯下他们的腰。

外邦人得救

11我且说，他们失脚是要他们跌倒吗？断乎不是！反倒因他们的过失，救恩便临到外邦人，要激动他们发愤。

12若他们的过失为天下的富足，他们的缺乏为外邦人的富足，何况他们的丰满呢？

13我对你们外邦人说这话；因我是外邦人的使徒，所以敬重我的职分，

14或者可以激动我骨肉之亲发愤，好救他们一些人。

15若他们被丢弃，天下就得与 神和好，他们被收纳，岂不是死而复生吗？

16所献的新面若是圣洁，全团也就圣洁了；树根若是圣洁，树枝也就圣洁了。

17若有几根枝子被折下来，你这野橄榄得接在其中，一同得着橄榄根的肥汁，

18你就不可向旧枝子夸口；若是夸口，当知道不是你托着根，乃是根托着你。

19你若说，那枝子被折下来是特为叫我接上。

20不错！他们因为不信，所以被折下来；你因为信，所以立得住；你不可自高，反要惧怕。

21神既不爱惜原来的枝子，也必不爱惜你。

22可见， 神的恩慈和严厉向那跌倒的人是严厉的，向你是有恩慈的，只要你长久在他的恩慈里；不然，你也要被砍下来。

23而且他们若不是长久不信，仍要被接上，因为 神能够把他们从新接上。

24你是从那天生的野橄榄上砍下来的，尚且逆着性得接在好橄榄上，何况这本树的枝子，要接在本树上呢！

以色列人的复兴

25弟兄们，我不愿意你们不知道这奥秘（恐怕你们自以为聪明），就是以色列人有几分是硬心的，等到外邦人的数目添满了，

26于是以色列全家都要得救。如经上所记：必有一位救主从锡安出来， 要消除雅各家的一切罪恶；

27又说：我除去他们罪的时候， 这就是我与他们所立的约。

28就着福音说，他们为你们的缘故是仇敌；就着拣选说，他们为列祖的缘故是蒙爱的。

29因为 神的恩赐和选召是没有后悔的。

30你们从前不顺服 神，如今因他们的不顺服，你们倒蒙了怜恤。

31这样，他们也是不顺服，叫他们因着施给你们的怜恤，现在也就蒙怜恤。

32因为 神将众人都圈在不顺服之中，特意要怜恤众人。

33深哉， 神丰富的智慧和知识！ 他的判断何其难测！ 他的踪迹何其难寻！

34谁知道主的心？ 谁作过他的谋士呢？

35谁是先给了他， 使他后来偿还呢？

36因为万有都是本于他， 倚靠他，归于他。 愿荣耀归给他，直到永远。阿们！

1I say 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.

2God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture saith of Elias; how he calleth on God against Israel?

3Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they have dug down thy altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

4But what saith the divine answer to him? I have left me seven thousand men, that have not bowed their knees to Baal.

5Even so then at this present time also, there is a remnant saved according to the election of grace.

6And if by grace, it is not now by works: otherwise grace is no more grace.

7What then? That which Israel sought, he hath not obtained: but the election hath obtained it; and the rest have been blinded.

8As it is written: God hath given them the spirit of insensibility; eyes that they should not see; and ears that they should not hear, until this present day.

9And David saith: Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompense unto them.

10Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see: and bow down their back always.

11I 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.

12Now 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?

13For I say to you, Gentiles: as long indeed as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I will honour my ministry,

14If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

15For if the loss of them be the reconciliation of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

16For if the firstfruit be holy, so is the lump also: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

17And 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,

18Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

19Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

20Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith: be not highminded, but fear.

21For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps he also spare not thee.

22See 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.

23And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.

24For 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?

25For 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.

26And 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.

27And this is to them my covenant: when I shall take away their sins.

28As 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.

29For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.

30For as you also in times past did not believe God, but now have obtained mercy, through their unbelief;

31So these also now have not believed, for your mercy, that they also may obtain mercy.

32For God hath concluded all in unbelief, that he may have mercy on all.

33O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

34For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor?

35Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made him?

36For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.