But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, "If the number of the sons of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;

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

But I ask, did not Israel know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation void of understanding I will make you angry."

But as to Israel he says, "All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."

God did not reject his people, which he foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he did not obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

For I do not desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.