But it is not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:

And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved:

but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.

But I say, Did Israel not know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, With a nation void of understanding will I anger you.

But as to Israel he saith, All the day long did I spread out my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel:

What then? that which Israel seeketh for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened:

For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in;

and so all Israel shall be saved: even as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer; He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: