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1 I say then, Has God rejected his people It may not be. For I also am an Israelite, of Abraham's seed, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or know ye not in Elias, what says the writing? how he addresses God against Israel, saying, 3 Lord, thy prophets have they killed, and dug down thine altars; and I alone was left, and they seek my soul. 4 But what say to him the intimations of divine will I have left to myself seven thousand men, who bent not the knee to Baal. 5 So then also in the time now has been a remnant according to the election of grace. 6 And if to grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. And if of works, it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work. 7 What then What Israel seeks for, this be attained not; but the selection attained, and the rest were hardened. 8 (As has been written, God gave them the spirit of mortal pain, eyes not to see, and earn not to hear;) even to this day. 9 And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for booty, and for a stumblingblock, and for a retribution to them: 10 Let their eyes be darkened not to see, and let them bend their back always. 11 I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? It may not be: but by their fall salvation to the nations, to make them jealous. 12 And if their fall the riches of the world, and their disaster the riches of the nations; how much more their fulness? Romans 11:1-12, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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