Not as though the word of God hath failed; for not all they that are of Israel are Israel;

But Isaiah crieth out concerning Israel, "Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.

while Israel, which strove after a law of righteousness, did not attain to a law of righteousness.

But I say, Hath not Israel had knowledge? First, Moses saith, "I will move you to jealousy by that which is no nation, I will excite you to indignation by a foolish people."

But concerning Israel he saith, "All the day long I have stretched out my hands to a disobedient and rebellious people."

God hath not cast off his people, which he foreknew. Do ye not know what the Scripture saith in the passage concerning Elijah? how he pleadeth to God against Israel:

What Israel seeketh after, that Israel did not obtain; but the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened;

For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits, that blindness hath to some extent come upon Israel, until the fullness of the gentiles shall have come in.

And thus will all Israel be saved; as it is written, "There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer; he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.