Romans 11:1-12

1I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? May it never be! For I too am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

2God has not rejected His people whom He knew beforehand. Or do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

3“Adonai, they have killed your prophets, they have destroyed your altars; I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.”

4But what is the divine response to him? “I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

5So in the same way also at this present time there has come to be a remnant according to God’s gracious choice.

6But if it is by grace, it is no longer by works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

7What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained; but the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened—

8just as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes not to see and ears not to hear, until this very day.”

9And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them.

10Let their eyes be darkened so they do not see, and bend their back continually.”

11I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their false step salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke Israel to jealousy.

12Now if their transgression leads to riches for the world, and their loss riches for the Gentiles, then how much more their fullness!