Chiasm Romans 11
by GAT, written 2020 updated 1/12/2026
I say
1 certainly God did not thrust-away His people.
2 May it not become!
3 For also I am an Israelite out-from a seed of Abraham,
2 of a tribe of Benjamin.
1+ God did not thrust-away His people whom He knew-before. (salvation past)
1 Not you still-know to Elijah
what says the Scripture,
1 for-when he intercedes to God against Israel, saying,
2 'Lord, Your prophets they killed,
3 and Your altars they dug-down,
4 and I was left-behind alone,
5 and they seek my soul.'
6 Howbeit, what lays-forth to him
5 the divine response?
4 'I have left-behind to Myself seven-thousand
3 whoever have not bent a knee
2 to Baal.'
1+ Then in this way also at the present time (salvation now)
2Ig a remnant according to a choice {determination} of grace has become.
3 But if by grace
4 not yet out-from works,
5 otherwise that grace not yet gives-rise-to grace.
3 But if out-from works
4 not yet is grace,
5 otherwise the work not yet is a work. {work of God?}
4 What then?
3 What Israel seeks-for this it not happened-upon,
2Is but the called-out {the spoken-out} obtained it {salvation},
1 and the rest were hardened;
just as it is written,
1 "God gave to them a spirit of deep-piercing,
eyes from which not to-perceive
and ears from which not to listen
until this very day."
And David says,
1 "Let their table become for a snare
and for a trap
and for a stumbling-block
and for a recompense to them."
"Shall be darkened their eyes from which not to-perceive,
and their back always bent-together."
I ask then,
1 might not they stumbled so that they might fall?
2 May it not become!
1 But instead during their transgression {result of falling-beside}
2ns the salvation to the nations;
3 for this: to make-jealous-with them.
4 But if their transgression [is] a fullness of an orderly-arrangement
5 and their result-of-diminishing [is] a fulness of nations,
6 by how much more their resulting-fullness!
7 For I speak to you the nations,
6* upon as much truly*
5 I am an apostle of nations,
4 my attendance I recognize
3 if somehow I might make-jealous my flesh
2Is and might save some out-from them.
3 For if their casting-away
4 [is] an exchange of an orderly-arrangement,
3 what [is] their reception
2Is if not life out-from dead-ones?
1 If the first-portion [is] holy,
2 also the mixture;
1 and if the root [is] holy,
2 also the branches.
3 But if some of the branches were broken-off,
4 but you, being a wild-olive-tree, were ingrafted among them
5 and a joint-partaker of the root
4 and of the plumpness of the olive-tree you became,
3 you should not exult-against the branches.
2 But if you exult-against not you [who] supports the root,
1 but instead the root you.
1 You will declare then,
2 'Were broken-off the branches
3 in-order-that I might be ingrafted.'
4 Well, in unbelief they were broken-off,
3 but you still-stand by faith.
2 You should not esteem-highly.
1 But instead you should fear.
2 For if God not spared the 'according to nature' branches,
3 by-some-means not-even of you He might spare.
4 Behold then a kindness
5 and severity of God;
6* truly* upon those having-fallen
5 a severity,
4 but upon you God's kindness,
3 if in case you might continue in the kindness;
2 otherwise also you will be severed.
1 But also the others,
2 if in case they might not continue in unbelief {faithlessness},
3 will be ingrafted,
2gs for able is God again to ingraft them.
1 For if you out-from the 'according to nature'
2 were severed from a wild-olive-tree,
3 and 'from beside nature'
4 were ingrafted into a cultivated olive-tree,
5 how much more these who 'according to nature'
6 will be ingrafted to their own olive-tree?
7a For not I desire you to not know,
8 brothers,
9 > this mystery;
8 in order that not you might be beside yourselves
7b wise-ones,
6 that a hardness
5 away-from a portion in Israel
4 has become
3 until of what the resulting-fullness
2n of the nations might-come-into.
1+ and in this way all Israel will be saved; (salvation future)
just as it is written,
1 "will arrive the One-rescuing out from Zion,
2I and He will turn-back irreverence away from Jacob."
3 "And this to them
4 the from beside me covenant,
5 whenever I might take-away their sins."
6* Truly* in-relation-to the good-message
5 adversarial [ones] by your reason,
4 but according-to that spoken-out {the determination}
3 beloved-ones by-reason-of the fathers.
2gs For not-regrettable the results-of-grace (grace & salvation)
3 and call {invitation} of God.
4 For just as also you once were-disobedient to God,
5 but now you were-mercied
6 during their disobedience,
7 in this way also these now were-disobedient
6 during your own mercy
5 in order that also they might be-mercied.
4 For God has enclosed-together the all [peoples] for disobedience
5 in order that the all [peoples] He might mercy.
6 O depth of fullness
7ba both of wisdom and knowledge of God.
8 How unsearchable His judgments
9 > and untraceable His ways!
8 For "Who knew YHWH's mind?"
7 Or "Who became His counsellor?"
6 Or "Who gave-before to Him
5 and will-be-recompensed by Him?"
4 Because out-from Him
3 and through Him
2In and for Him [are] the all [things]. (both Israel & nations)
1 To Him the recognition for the ages.
Amen.