But it is not as though the word of God has failed: for they are not all Israel, who are of Israel;

And Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the sons 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 attain to such a law.

But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to rivalry by that which is no nation; by a nation void of understanding will I provoke you to anger."

But in respect to Israel He saith, "All the day long did I spread out My hand to a disobedient and gain-saying people."

God did not cast off His people whom He foreknew. Or know ye not what the Scripture says of Elijah? how he pleads with God against Israel:

What, then? What Israel is seeking for, this he did not obtain; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened;

For I do not wish you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery (lest ye be wise in your own conceits), that a hardening, in part, has befallen Israel, until the fulness of the gentiles come in;

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