Romans 11:1–12

Israel Is Not Cast Away

¹I say then, God has not ^arejected His people, has He? ^bMay it never be! For ^cI too am an Israelite, ¹a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

²God ^ahas not rejected His people whom He ^bforeknew. ^cOr do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with 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 ¹is the divine response to him? “^aI have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

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

⁶But ^aif it is by grace, it is no longer ¹on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.

⁷What then? What ^aIsrael is seeking, it has not obtained, but ¹those who were chosen obtained it, and the rest were ^bhardened;

⁸just as it is written,

“^aGod 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.”

^11aI say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? ^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 ^1afulfillment be!