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로마서 11장 Contemporary English Version (2006)

Contemporary English Version (2006) · 영어 · 로마서 (Romans) · 36절 · 대역: King James Version

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God Has Not Rejected His People
Am I saying that God has turned his back on his people? Certainly not! I am one of the people of Israel, and I myself am a descendant of Abraham from the tribe of Benjamin.
I 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.
2 God did not turn his back on his chosen people. Don't you remember reading in the Scriptures how Elijah complained to God about the people of Israel? God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
3 He said, “Lord, they killed your prophets and destroyed your altars. I am the only one left, and now they want to kill me.” Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 But the Lord told Elijah, “I still have 7,000 followers who have not worshiped Baal.” But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
5 It is the same way now. God treated the people of Israel with undeserved grace, and so a few of them are still his followers. Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 This happened because of God's undeserved kindness and not because of anything they have done. It could not have happened except for God's gift of undeserved grace. And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
7 This means that only a chosen few of the people of Israel found what all of them were searching for. And the rest of them were stubborn, What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
8 just as the Scriptures say, “God made them so stupid that their eyes are blind, and their ears are still deaf.” (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
9 Then David said, “Turn their meals into bait for a trap, so that they will stumble and be given what they deserve. And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
10 Blindfold their eyes! Don't let them see. Bend their backs beneath a burden that will never be lifted.” Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
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Gentiles Will Be Saved
Do I mean that the people of Israel fell, never to get up again? Certainly not! Their failure made it possible for the Gentiles to be saved, and this will make the people of Israel jealous.
I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
12 But if the rest of the world's people were helped so much by their sin and loss, they will be helped even more by their full return. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
13 I am now speaking to you Gentiles, and as long as I am an apostle to you, I will take pride in my work. For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14 I hope in this way to make some of my own people jealous enough to be saved. If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15 When Israel rejected God, the rest of the people in the world were able to turn to him. So when God makes friends with Israel, it will be like bringing the dead back to life. For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16 If part of a batch of dough is made holy by being offered to God, then all of the dough is holy. If the roots of a tree are holy, the rest of the tree is holy too. For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 You Gentiles are like branches of a wild olive tree made to be part of a cultivated olive tree. You have taken the place of some branches that were cut away from it. And because of this, you enjoy the blessings that come from being part of that cultivated tree. And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 But don't think you are better than the branches that were cut away. Just remember you are not supporting the roots of this tree. Its roots are supporting you. Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19 Maybe you think those branches were cut away, so you could be put in their place. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
20 That's true enough. But they were cut away because they did not have faith, and you are where you are because you do have faith. So don't be proud, but be afraid. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
21 If God cut away those natural branches, couldn't he do the same to you? For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
22 Now you see both how kind and how hard God can be. He was hard on those who fell, but he was kind to you. And he will keep on being kind to you, if you keep on trusting in his kindness. Otherwise, you will be cut away too. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23 If those other branches will start having faith, they will be made a part of that tree again. God has the power to put them back. And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
24 After all, it wasn't natural for branches to be cut from a wild olive tree and to be made part of a cultivated olive tree. So it is much more likely that God will join the natural branches back to the cultivated olive tree. For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
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The People of Israel Will Be Brought Back
My friends, I don't want you Gentiles to be too proud of yourselves. So I will explain the mystery of what has happened to the people of Israel. Some of them have become stubborn, and they will stay like that until the complete number of you Gentiles has come in.
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 In this way all of Israel will be saved, as the Scriptures say, “From Zion someone will come to rescue us. Then Jacob's descendants will stop being evil. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 This is what the Lord has promised to do when he forgives their sins.” For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
28 The people of Israel are treated as God's enemies, so the good news can come to you Gentiles. But they are still the chosen ones, and God loves them because of their famous ancestors. As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.
29 God doesn't take back the gifts he has given or disown the people he has chosen. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
30 At one time you Gentiles rejected God. But now Israel has rejected God, and you have been shown mercy. For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
31 And because of the mercy shown to you, they will also be shown mercy. Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
32 All people have disobeyed God, and that's why he treats them as prisoners. But he does this, so that he can have mercy on all of them. For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
33 Who can measure the wealth and wisdom and knowledge of God? Who can understand his decisions or explain what he does? O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
34 “Has anyone known the thoughts of the Lord or given him advice? For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
35 Has anyone loaned something to the Lord that must be repaid?” Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
36 Everything comes from the Lord. All things were made because of him and will return to him. Praise the Lord forever! Amen. For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

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