Romans 11:1–12

¹I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin: ²God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known—in Elijah—what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying, ³‘Lord, Thy prophets they did kill, and Thy altars they dug down, and I was left alone, and they seek my life;’ ⁴but what saith the divine answer to him? ‘I left to Myself seven thousand men, who did not bow a knee to Baal.’ ⁵So then also in the present time a remnant according to the choice of grace there hath been; ⁶and if by grace, no more of works, otherwise the grace becometh no more grace; and if of works, it is no more grace, otherwise the work is no more work. ⁷What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened, ⁸according as it hath been written, ‘God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,’—unto this very day, ⁹and David saith, ‘Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompense to them; ¹⁰let their eyes be darkened—not to behold, and their back do Thou always bow down.’ ¹¹I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation is to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy; ¹²and if the fall of them is the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them?