Romans 11:5

Romans 11:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
• New International Version (NIV)So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
• English Standard Version (ESV)So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

Context of Romans 11:5

3‘Lord God, they have killed your prophets. They have destroyed the altars where people offered sacrifices to you. I am the only person alive who still serves you. And they are trying to kill me.’ 4This was God's answer to Elijah: ‘There are still 7,000 men that I have kept for myself. Those men have not worshipped the false god Baal.’ It is the same at this time too. There is a small number of Israel's people that God has chosen to trust him. He has chosen them because he is very kind. 6This shows that God has not chosen them because of any good things that they have done. If that was true, we could not say that God was really being kind to them. It would not be his gift. 7So we can say this: Israel's people did not all find what they were looking for. Only those people that God had chosen received it. But the other people of Israel became unable to understand God's message.

Romans 11:5 word by word

οὕτως οὖν καὶ ἐν τῷ νῦν καιρῷ λεῖμμα κατ᾽ ἐκλογὴν χάριτος γέγονεν.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Even soοὕτωςhoutō · thus(-ly)G3779
• thenοὖνoun · therefore/thenG3767
• atἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• this presentνῦνnun · nowG3568
• timeκαιρόςkairos · time/right timeG2540
• alsoκαίkai · andG2532
• there isγίνομαιginomai · to beG1096
• a remnantλεῖμμαleimma · remnantG3005
• according toκατάkata · according toG2596
• the electionἐκλογήeklogē · selectingG1589
• of graceχάριςcharis · graceG5485

Cross-references for Romans 11:5

• Romans 11:6This shows that God has not chosen them because of any good things that they have done. If that was true, we could not say that God was really being kind to them. It would not be his gift.
• Romans 9:27Also, Isaiah, God's prophet, said this about Israel's people: ‘There are so many of Israel's people, nobody can count them. They are as many as the bits of sand on the shore of the sea. But God will save only a few of them.
• Romans 11:28Israel's people have become God's enemies, because they have refused to believe the good news about Christ. This has happened to help you Gentiles. But God still loves Israel's people, because he has chosen them as his own people. That is what he promised to their ancestors.
• Romans 9:11And God spoke to Rebekah before her sons were born. God spoke before the boys had done anything either good or bad. God did this to show clearly that he himself was choosing one child. He was not choosing someone because of what that person had done. He himself decided who he would choose.
• Ephesians 1:5Long ago, he already decided to accept us into his family as his children, because of Jesus Christ. He chose us to belong to him because it made him very happy.

Commentaries on Romans 11:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Even so then at this present time - As in the present day the irreligion of the Jews is very great; yet there is a remnant, a considerable number, who have accepted of the grace of the Gospel. According to the election of grace - And these are saved just as God has saved all believers from the beginning; they are chosen by his grace, not on account of any worth or excellence in themselves, but through his goodness are they chosen to have a place in his…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5At this present time - In the time when the apostle wrote. Though the mass of the nation was to be rejected, yet it did not follow that all were to be excluded from the favor of God. As in the time of Elijah, when all appeared to be dark, and all the nation, except one, seemed to have become apostate, yet there was a considerable number of the true friends of God; so in the time of Paul, though the nation had rejected their Messiah, though, as a…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5a remnant: Paul refers back to the Old Testament idea of the remnant that he used in 9:27–29. A remnant refers to a small group of people who remain faithful when many others do not. This faithful group of Israelites shows that God continues to keep his promises. It also shows that God remains faithful to his people.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. Even so at this present time--"in this present season"; this period of Israel's rejection. (See Ac 1:7, Greek). there is--"there obtains," or "hath remained" a remnant according to the election of grace--"As in Elijah's time the apostasy of Israel was not so universal as it seemed to be, and as he in his despondency concluded it to be, so now, the rejection of Christ by Israel is not so appalling in extent as one would be apt to think: There is now, as…Read the comment

Topics related to Romans 11:5

• Grace of God
• Predestination
• Salvation

In the dictionaries

• Election of Grace
• Cast
• Conclude
• Dark
• Depth
• Election
• Emulation
• Grace
• Judgment
• Predestination

Commentaries on Romans 11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings