Romans 11:1-12 - A Remnant Of Israel Remains
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, 8 as it is written: God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes with which they can not see, and ears with which they can not hear.
9 And David says: Let their table become a trap, and a net, and a snare, and a recompense to them; 10 let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and let them bow down their back always.
11 I say, then, Have they stumbled, in order that they may fall? It can not be. But rather, through their fall, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to excite them to jealousy. 12 Now, if their fall be the riches of the world, and their loss be the riches of the Gentiles, how much more shall their full acceptance be the riches of the world?