Romans 11:1-7
Israel Is Not Cast Away
1 I say then, God has not (A)rejected His people, has He? (B)May it never be! For (C)I too am an Israelite, (a)a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God (D)has not rejected His people whom He (E)foreknew. (F)Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?
3 “Lord, (G)they have killed Your prophets, they have torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.”
4 But what (b)is the divine response to him? “(H)I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
5 In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time (I)a remnant according to God’s (c)gracious choice.
6 But (J)if it is by grace, it is no longer (d)on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.
Footnotes:
a.
Romans 11:1: ['Lit ', of the seed of Abraham]
b.
Romans 11:4: ['Lit ', says]
c.
Romans 11:5: ['Lit ', choice of grace]
d.
Romans 11:6: ['Lit ', out of]
e.
Romans 11:7: ['Lit ', the election]