Romans 11:1-10 ▼

1 I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For I also am an Israelite, of [the] seed of Abraham, of [the] tribe of Benjamin.

2 God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture says in [the history of] Elias, how he pleads with God against Israel?

3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thine altars; and I have been left alone, and they seek my life.

4 But what says the divine answer to him? I have left to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed knee to Baal.

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

6 But if by grace, no longer of works: since [otherwise] grace is no more grace.

7 What [is it] then? What Israel seeks for, that he has not obtained; but the election has obtained, and the rest have been blinded,

8 according as it is written, God has given to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this day.

9 And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:

10 let their eyes be darkened not to see, and bow down their back alway.