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1그러므로 내가 말하노니 하나님이 자기 백성을 버리셨느뇨 그럴 수 없느니라 나도 이스라엘인이요 아브라함의 씨에서 난 자요 베냐민 지파라 2하나님이 그 미리 아신 자기 백성을 버리지 아니하셨나니 너희가 성경이 엘리야를 가리켜 말한 것을 알지 못하느냐 저가 이스라엘을 하나님께 송사하되 3주여 저희가 주의 선지자들을 죽였으며 주의 제단들을 헐어버렸고 나만 남았는데 내 목숨도 찾나이다 하니 4저에게 하신 대답이 무엇이뇨 내가 나를 위하여 바알에게 무릎을 꿇지 아니한 사람 칠천을 남겨 두었다 하셨으니 5그런즉 이와 같이 이제도 은혜로 택하심을 따라 남은 자가 있느니라 6만일 은혜로 된 것이면 행위로 말미암지 않음이니 그렇지 않으면 은혜가 은혜 되지 못하느니라 7그런즉 어떠하뇨 이스라엘이 구하는 그것을 얻지 못하고 오직 택하심을 입은 자가 얻었고 그 남은 자들은 완악하여졌느니라 8기록된 바 하나님이 오늘날까지 저희에게 혼미한 심령과 보지 못할 눈과 듣지 못할 귀를 주셨다 함과 같으니라 9또 다윗이 가로되 저희 밥상이 올무와 덫과 거치는 것과 보응이 되게 하옵시고 10저희 눈은 흐려 보지 못하고 저희 등은 항상 굽게 하옵소서 하였느니라 11그러므로 내가 말하노니 저희가 넘어지기까지 실족하였느뇨 그럴 수 없느니라 저희의 넘어짐으로 구원이 이방인에게 이르러 이스라엘로 시기나게 함이니라 12저희의 넘어짐이 세상의 부요함이 되며 저희의 실패가 이방인의 부요함이 되거든 하물며 저희의 충만함이리요 13내가 이방인인 너희에게 말하노라 내가 이방인의 사도인 만큼 내 직분을 영광스럽게 여기노니 14이는 곧 내 골육을 아무쪼록 시기케 하여 저희 중에서 얼마를 구원하려 함이라 15저희를 버리는 것이 세상의 화목이 되거든 그 받아들이는 것이 죽은 자 가운데서 사는 것이 아니면 무엇이리요 16제사하는 처음 익은 곡식 가루가 거룩한즉 떡덩이도 그러하고 뿌리가 거룩한즉 가지도 그러하니라 17또한 가지 얼마가 꺾여졌는데 돌감람나무인 네가 그들 중에 접붙임이 되어 참감람나무 뿌리의 진액을 함께 받는 자 되었은즉 18그 가지들을 향하여 자긍하지 말라 자긍할지라도 네가 뿌리를 보전하는 것이 아니요 뿌리가 너를 보전하는 것이니라 19그러면 네 말이 가지들이 꺾이운 것은 나로 접붙임을 받게 하려함이라 하리니 20옳도다 저희는 믿지 아니하므로 꺾이우고 너는 믿으므로 섰느니라 높은 마음을 품지 말고 도리어 두려워하라 21하나님이 원 가지들도 아끼지 아니하셨은즉 너도 아끼지 아니하시리라 22그러므로 하나님의 인자와 엄위를 보라 넘어지는 자들에게는 엄위가 있으니 너희가 만일 하나님의 인자에 거하면 그 인자가 너희에게 있으리라 그렇지 않으면 너도 찍히는 바 되리라 23저희도 믿지 아니하는 데 거하지 아니하면 접붙임을 얻으리니 이는 저희를 접붙이실 능력이 하나님께 있음이라 24네가 원 돌감람나무에서 찍힘을 받고 본성을 거스려 좋은 감람나무에 접붙임을 얻었은즉 원 가지인 이 사람들이야 얼마나 더 자기 감람나무에 접붙이심을 얻으랴 25형제들아 너희가 스스로 지혜있다 함을 면키 위하여 이 비밀을 너희가 모르기를 내가 원치 아니하노니 이 비밀은 이방인의 충만한 수가 들어오기까지 이스라엘의 더러는 완악하게 된 것이라 26그리하여 온 이스라엘이 구원을 얻으리라 기록된 바 구원자가 시온에서 오사 야곱에게서 경건치 않은 것을 돌이키시겠고 27내가 저희 죄를 없이 할 때에 저희에게 이루어질 내 언약이 이것이라 함과 같으니라 28복음으로 하면 저희가 너희를 인하여 원수 된 자요 택하심으로 하면 조상들을 인하여 사랑을 입은 자라 29하나님의 은사와 부르심에는 후회하심이 없느니라 30너희가 전에 하나님께 순종치 아니하더니 이스라엘의 순종치 아니함으로 이제 긍휼을 입었는지라 31이와 같이 이 사람들이 순종치 아니하니 이는 너희에게 베푸시는 긍휼로 이제 저희도 긍휼을 얻게 하려 하심이니라 32하나님이 모든 사람을 순종치 아니하는 가운데 가두어 두심은 모든 사람에게 긍휼을 베풀려 하심이로다 33깊도다 하나님의 지혜와 지식의 부요함이여 그의 판단은 측량치 못할 것이며 그의 길은 찾지 못할 것이로다 34누가 주의 마음을 알았느뇨 누가 그의 모사가 되었느뇨 35누가 주께 먼저 드려서 갚으심을 받겠느뇨 36이는 만물이 주에게서 나오고 주로 말미암고 주에게로 돌아감이라 영광이 그에게 세세에 있으리로다 아멘

1I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel: 3“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.” 4But how does God answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” 5Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 6And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work. 7What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened. 8According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.” 9David says, “Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them. 10Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always.” 11I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. 12Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness? 13For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry; 14if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them. 15For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead? 16If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches. 17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree; 18don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you. 19You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.” 20True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear; 21for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. 22See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off. 23They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? 25For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, 26and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob. 27This is my covenant to them, when I will take away their sins.” 28Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake. 29For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. 30For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, 31even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy. 32For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all. 33Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out! 34“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?” 35“Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?” 36For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

1Ik zeg dan: Heeft God Zijn volk verstoten? Dat zij verre; want ik ben ook een Israeliet, uit het zaad Abrahams, van den stam Benjamin. 2God heeft Zijn volk niet verstoten, hetwelk Hij te voren gekend heeft. Of weet gij niet, wat de Schrift zegt van Elia, hoe hij God aanspreekt tegen Israel, zeggende: 3Heere! zij hebben Uw profeten gedood, en Uw altaren omgeworpen; en ik ben alleen overgebleven en zij zoeken mijn ziel. 4Maar wat zegt tot hem het Goddelijk antwoord? Ik heb Mijzelven nog zeven duizend mannen overgelaten, die de knie voor het beeld van Baal niet gebogen hebben. 5Alzo is er dan ook in dezen tegenwoordigen tijd een overblijfsel geworden, naar de verkiezing der genade. 6En indien het door genade is, zo is het niet meer uit de werken; anderszins is de genade geen genade meer; en indien het is uit de werken, zo is het geen genade meer; anderszins is het werk geen werk meer. 7Wat dan? Hetgeen Israel zoekt, dat heeft het niet verkregen; maar de uitverkorenen hebben het verkregen, en de anderen zijn verhard geworden. 8(Gelijk geschreven is: God heeft hun gegeven een geest des diepen slaaps; ogen om niet te zien, en oren om niet te horen) tot op den huidigen dag. 9En David zegt: Hun tafel worde tot een strik, en tot een val, en tot een aanstoot, en tot een vergelding voor hen. 10Dat hun ogen verduisterd worden, om niet te zien; en verkrom hun rug allen tijd. 11Zo zeg ik dan: Hebben zij gestruikeld, opdat zij vallen zouden? Dat zij verre; maar door hun val is de zaligheid den heidenen geworden, om hen tot jaloersheid te verwekken. 12En indien hun val de rijkdom is der wereld, en hun vermindering de rijkdom der heidenen, hoeveel te meer hun volheid! 13Want ik spreek tot u, heidenen, voor zoveel ik der heidenen apostel ben; ik maak mijn bediening heerlijk; 14Of ik enigszins mijn vlees tot jaloersheid verwekken, en enigen uit hen behouden mocht. 15Want indien hun verwerping de verzoening is der wereld, wat zal de aanneming wezen, anders dan het leven uit de doden? 16En indien de eerstelingen heilig zijn, zo is ook het deeg heilig, en indien de wortel heilig is, zo zijn ook de takken heilig. 17En zo enige der takken afgebroken zijn, en gij, een wilde olijfboom zijnde, in derzelver plaats zijt ingeent, en des wortels en der vettigheid des olijfbooms mede deelachtig zijt geworden, 18Zo roem niet tegen de takken; en indien gij daartegen roemt, gij draagt den wortel niet, maar de wortel u. 19Gij zult dan zeggen: De takken zijn afgebroken, opdat ik zou ingeent worden. 20Het is wel; zij zijn door ongeloof afgebroken, en gij staat door het geloof. Zijt niet hooggevoelende, maar vrees. 21Want is het, dat God de natuurlijke takken niet gespaard heeft, zie toe, dat Hij ook mogelijk u niet spare. 22Zie dan de goedertierenheid en de strengheid van God; de strengheid wel over degenen, die gevallen zijn, maar de goedertierenheid over u, indien gij in de goedertierenheid blijft; anderszins zult ook gij afgehouwen worden. 23Maar ook zij, indien zij in het ongeloof niet blijven, zullen ingeent worden; want God is machtig om dezelve weder in te enten. 24Want indien gij afgehouwen zijt uit den olijfboom, die van nature wild was, en tegen nature in den goeden olijfboom ingeent; hoeveel te meer zullen deze, die natuurlijke takken zijn, in hun eigen olijfboom geent worden? 25Want ik wil niet, broeders, dat u deze verborgenheid onbekend zij (opdat gij niet wijs zijt, bij uzelven), dat de verharding voor een deel over Israel gekomen is, totdat de volheid der heidenen zal ingegaan zijn. 26En alzo zal geheel Israel zalig worden; gelijk geschreven is: De Verlosser zal uit Sion komen en zal de goddeloosheden afwenden van Jakob. 27En dit is hun een verbond van Mij, als Ik hun zonden zal wegnemen. 28Zo zijn zij wel vijanden aangaande het Evangelie, om uwentwil, maar aangaande de verkiezing zijn zij beminden, om der vaderen wil; 29Want de genadegiften en de roeping Gods zijn onberouwelijk. 30Want gelijkerwijs ook gijlieden eertijds Gode ongehoorzaam geweest zijt, maar nu barmhartigheid verkregen hebt door dezer ongehoorzaamheid; 31Alzo zijn ook dezen nu ongehoorzaam geweest, opdat ook zij door uw barmhartigheid zouden barmhartigheid verkrijgen. 32Want God heeft hen allen onder de ongehoorzaamheid besloten, opdat Hij hun allen zou barmhartig zijn. 33O diepte des rijkdoms, beide der wijsheid en der kennis Gods, hoe ondoorzoekelijk zijn Zijn oordelen, en onnaspeurlijk Zijn wegen! 34Want wie heeft den zin des Heeren gekend? Of wie is Zijn raadsman geweest? 35Of wie heeft Hem eerst gegeven, en het zal hem wedervergolden worden? 36Want uit Hem, en door Hem, en tot Hem zijn alle dingen. Hem zij de heerlijkheid in der eeuwigheid. Amen.