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, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin:

2God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known — in Elijah — what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying,

3'Lord, Thy prophets they did kill, and Thy altars they dug down, and I was left alone, and they seek my life;'

4but what saith the divine answer to him? 'I left to Myself seven thousand men, who did not bow a knee to Baal.'

5So then also in the present time a remnant according to the choice of grace there hath been;

6and if by grace, no more of works, otherwise the grace becometh no more grace; and if of works, it is no more grace, otherwise the work is no more work.

7What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened,

8according as it hath been written, 'God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,' — unto this very day,

9and David saith, 'Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompense to them;

10let their eyes be darkened — not to behold, and their back do Thou always bow down.'

11I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation [is] to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;

12and if the fall of them [is] the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them?

13For to you I speak — to the nations — inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify;

14if by any means I shall arouse to jealousy mine own flesh, and shall save some of them,

15for if the casting away of them [is] a reconciliation of the world, what the reception — if not life out of the dead?

16and if the first-fruit [is] holy, the lump also; and if the root [is] holy, the branches also.

17And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become —

18do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee!

19Thou wilt say, then, 'The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;' right!

20by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;

21for if God the natural branches did not spare — lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee.

22Lo, then, goodness and severity of God — upon those indeed who fell, severity; and upon thee, goodness, if thou mayest remain in the goodness, otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off.

23And those also, if they may not remain in unbelief, shall be graffed in, for God is able again to graff them in;

24for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who [are] according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?

25For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret — that ye may not be wise in your own conceits — that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;

26and so all Israel shall be saved, according as it hath been written, 'There shall come forth out of Sion he who is delivering, and he shall turn away impiety from Jacob,

27and this to them [is] the covenant from Me, when I may take away their sins.'

28As regards, indeed, the good tidings, [they are] enemies on your account; and as regards the choice — beloved on account of the fathers;

29for unrepented of [are] the gifts and the calling of God;

30for as ye also once did not believe in God, and now did find kindness by the unbelief of these:

31so also these now did not believe, that in your kindness they also may find kindness;

32for God did shut up together the whole to unbelief, that to the whole He might do kindness.

33O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

34for who did know the mind of the Lord? or who did become His counsellor?

35or who did first give to Him, and it shall be given back to him again?

36because of Him, and through Him, and to Him [are] the all things; to Him [is] the glory — to the ages. Amen.