Romans 11:1-10 ▼

1 I say then, did God thrust away His people? Never may it be! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

2 God did not thrust away His people, whom He foreknew. Or do you? not know what the Scripture says in Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel:

3 “Lord, they killed Your prophets, they tore down Your altars, and I alone was left, and they seek my life”?

4 But what does the divine answer say to him? “I left to Myself seven thousand men, who did not bow the knee to Baal.”

5 So then also in the present time, there has been a remnant according to the election of grace,

6 and if by grace, no longer out of works; otherwise grace no longer is grace.

7 What then? What Israel seeks after, this it did not obtain, but the elect obtained it. And the rest were hardened,

8 as it has been written: God gave “them a spirit of stupor, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this very day.”

9 And David says: May their table “become for a snare and for a trap, and for a stumbling block and for a retribution to them.

10 May their eyes be darkened not to see, and their backs bent over through all time.”