Romans 11:1-8 ▼

1 I SAY then: Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

2 God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture saith of Elias; how he calleth on God against Israel?

3 Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they have dug down thy altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

4 But what saith the divine answer to him? I have left me seven thousand men, that have not bowed their knees to Baal.

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

6 And if by grace, it is not now by works: otherwise grace is no more grace.

7 What then? That which Israel sought, he hath not obtained: but the election hath obtained it; and the rest have been blinded.

8 As it is written: God hath given them the spirit of insensibility; eyes that they should not see; and ears that they should not hear, until this present day.