Romans 11:5 So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.

English Standard Version
So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.

New American Standard Bible
In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God's gracious choice.

King James Bible
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In the same way, then, there is also at the present time a remnant chosen by grace.

International Standard Version
So it is at the present time: there is a remnant, chosen by grace.

American Standard Version
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

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

Darby Bible Translation
Thus, then, in the present time also there has been a remnant according to election of grace.

Young's Literal Translation
So then also in the present time a remnant according to the choice of grace there hath been;

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

11:1-10 There was a chosen remnant of believing Jews, who had righteousness and life by faith in Jesus Christ. These were kept according to the election of grace. If then this election was of grace, it could not be of works, either performed or foreseen. Every truly good disposition in a fallen creature must be the effect, therefore it cannot be the cause, of the grace of God bestowed on him. Salvation from the first to the last must be either of grace or of debt. These things are so directly contrary to each other that they cannot be blended together. God glorifies his grace by changing the hearts and tempers of the rebellious. How then should they wonder and praise him! The Jewish nation were as in a deep sleep, without knowledge of their danger, or concern about it; having no sense of their need of the Saviour, or of their being upon the borders of eternal ruin. David, having by the Spirit foretold the sufferings of Christ from his own people, the Jews, foretells the dreadful judgments of God upon them for it, Ps 69. This teaches us how to understand other prayers of David against his enemies; they are prophecies of the judgments of God, not expressions of his own anger. Divine curses will work long; and we have our eyes darkened, if we are bowed down in worldly-mindedness.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

5. Even so at this present time—"in this present season"; this period of Israel's rejection. (See Ac 1:7, Greek).

there is—"there obtains," or "hath remained"

a remnant according to the election of grace—"As in Elijah's time the apostasy of Israel was not so universal as it seemed to be, and as he in his despondency concluded it to be, so now, the rejection of Christ by Israel is not so appalling in extent as one would be apt to think: There is now, as there was then, a faithful remnant; not however of persons naturally better than the unbelieving mass, but of persons graciously chosen to salvation." (See 1Co 4:7; 2Th 2:13). This establishes our view of the argument on Election in Ro 9:1-29, as not being an election of Gentiles in the place of Jews, and merely to religious advantages, but a sovereign choice of some of Israel itself, from among others, to believe and be saved. (See on [2245]Ro 9:6.)