Romans 11:1-12 - A Remnant Of Israel Remains

¹ I ask then, has God repudiated his people? By no means. Why, I am an Israelite myself, I am descended from Abraham, and I belong to the tribe of Benjamin. ² God has not repudiated his people, which he had marked out from the first. Do you not know what the Scripture says in speaking of Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel?

³ "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, I am the only one left and they are trying to take my life."

⁴ But what is God's reply? "I have left myself seven thousand men who have never knelt to Baal!" ⁵ So too at the present time there is a remnant selected by God's mercy. ⁶ But if it is by his mercy, it is not for anything they have done. Otherwise, his mercy would not be mercy at all.

⁷ What follows? Israel failed to get what it sought, but those whom God selected got it. ⁸ The rest became callous; as the Scripture says, "God has thrown them into a state of spiritual insensibility, with eyes that cannot see and cars that cannot hear, that has lasted down to this day."

⁹ And David said, "Let their feasting prove a snare and a trap to them, Their ruin and their retribution. ¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; Make their backs bend forever under their burden!"

¹¹ I ask then, has their stumbling led to their absolute ruin? By no means. Through their false step salvation has gone to the heathen, so as to make the Israelites jealous. ¹² But if their false step has so enriched the world, and their defeat has so enriched the heathen, how much more good the addition of their full number will do!