Romans 11:1–12

¹I 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. ²God 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? ³Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thine altars; and I have been left alone, and they seek my life. ⁴But what says the divine answer to him? I have left to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed knee to Baal. ⁵Thus, then, in the present time also there has been a remnant according to election of grace. ⁶But if by grace, no longer of works: since otherwise grace is no more grace. ⁷What is it then? What Israel seeks for, that he has not obtained; but the election has obtained, and the rest have been blinded, ⁸according 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. ⁹And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them: ¹⁰let their eyes be darkened not to see, and bow down their back alway. ¹¹I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall there is salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy. ¹²But if their fall be the world’s wealth, and their loss the wealth of the nations, how much rather their fulness?