11Therefore I say, God has not rejected his people, has he?^* May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, from the descendants of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. ²God has not rejected his people, whom he foreknew! Or do you not know, in the passage about^* Elijah, what the scripture says—how he appeals to God against Israel? ³“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life!”^a ⁴But what does the divine response say to him? “I have left for myself seven thousand people^b who have not bent the knee to Baal.”^c ⁵So in this way also at the present time, there is a remnant selected by grace^d. ⁶But if by grace, it is no longer by works, for otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

⁷What then? What Israel was searching for, this it did not obtain. But the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened, ⁸just as it is written,

“God gave them a spirit of stupor,

eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear,

until this very day.”^e

⁹And David says,

“Let their table become a snare and a trap,

and a cause for stumbling and a retribution to them;

¹⁰let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see,

and cause their backs to bend continually^f.”^g

¹¹I say then, they did not stumble so that they fell, did they?^* May it never be! But by their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.^* ¹²And if their trespass means riches for the world and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness mean?

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Footnotes

*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here
*The words “the passage about” are not in the Greek text, but are supplied for clarity
aA quotation from 1 Kgs 19:10, 14
bOr perhaps “males,” referring to men only
cA quotation from 1 Kgs 19:18
dLiterally “according to selection of grace”
eA quotation from Deut 29:4; Isa 29:10
fLiterally “throughout everything”
gA quotation from Ps 69:22–23
*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here
*The words “to jealousy” are not in the Greek text, but are supplied for clarity