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

¹ Therefore I say, God has not rejected his people, has he? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, from the descendants of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. ² God has not rejected his people, whom he foreknew! Or do you not know, in [the passage about] Elijah, what the scripture says--how he appeals to God against Israel?

³ "Lord, 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 does the divine response say to him? "I have left for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal." ⁵ So in this way also at the present time, there is a remnant {selected by grace}. ⁶ But if by grace, [it is] no longer by works, for otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

⁷ What then? What Israel was searching for, this it did not obtain. But the elect obtained [it], and the rest were hardened, ⁸ just as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear, until this very day."

⁹ And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, and a cause for stumbling and a retribution to them; ¹⁰ let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and cause their backs to bend {continually}."

¹¹ I say then, they did not stumble so that they fell, [did they]? May it never be! But by their trespass, salvation [has come] to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them [to jealousy]. ¹² And if their trespass [means] riches for the world and their loss [means] riches for the Gentiles, how much more [will] their fullness [mean]?