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1 I say, then, Has God rejected his people? It can not be. For I am an Israelite, of the posterity of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture says, in regard to Elijah? how he intercedes with God against Israel, saying: 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thy altars, and I am left alone, and they seek: my life. 4 But what says the answer of God to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal. 5 Thus, then, at the present time also, there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 6 And if the election is by grace, it is no longer by works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. 7 What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks; but the chosen have obtained it, and the rest have been hardened to this day, Romans 11:1-7, Anderson New Testament. Public domain.
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