Romans 11

¹I 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.

²God 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?

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

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

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

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

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

⁸according 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.

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

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

¹¹I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall [there is] salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy.

¹²But if their fall [be the] world's wealth, and their loss [the] wealth of [the] nations, how much rather their fulness?