Romans 11:1–10

1  I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2  God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture says in the history of Elias, how he pleads with God against Israel? 3  Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thine altars; and I have been left alone, and they seek my life. 4  But what says the divine answer to him? I have left to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed knee to Baal. 5  Thus, then, in the present time also there has been a remnant according to election of grace. 6  But if by grace, no longer of works: since otherwise grace is no more grace. 7  What is it then? What Israel seeks for, that he has not obtained; but the election has obtained, and the rest have been blinded, 8  according as it is written, God has given to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this day. 9  And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them: 10  let their eyes be darkened not to see, and bow down their back alway.