Romans 11:1–12

God Has Not Rejected Israel

¹I say then, has God ^arejected His people? ^bMay it never be! For ^cI too am an Israelite, a seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

^21aGod has not rejected His people whom He ^bforeknew. ^cOr do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?

³“Lord, ^athey have killed Your prophets, they have torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.”

⁴But what does the divine response say to him? “^aI have left for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

⁵In this way then, at the present time, ^aa remnant according to God’s ¹gracious choice has also come to be.

⁶But ^aif it is by grace, it is no longer of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.

⁷What then? What ^aIsrael is seeking, it has not obtained, but the chosen obtained it, and the rest were ^bhardened;

⁸just as it is written,

“^1aGod gave them a spirit of stupor,

Eyes to see not and ears to hear not,

Down to this very day.”

⁹And David says,

“^aLet their table become a snare and a trap,

And a stumbling block and a retribution to them.

¹⁰“^aLet their eyes be darkened to see not,

And bend their backs forever.”

Gentiles Grafted In

^11aI say then, did they stumble so as to fall? ^bMay it never be! But by their transgression ^csalvation has come to the Gentiles, to ^dmake them jealous.

¹²Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their ^1afullness be!