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|Romanos 11:1|
I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
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|Romanos 11:2|
God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah — how he appealed to God against Israel:
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|Romanos 11:3|
“Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me”? [1 Kings 19:10,14]
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|Romanos 11:4|
And what was God’s answer to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” [1 Kings 19:18]
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|Romanos 11:5|
So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
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|Romanos 11:6|
And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace. [Some manuscripts: by grace. But if by works, then it is no longer grace; if it were, work would no longer be work.]
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|Romanos 11:7|
What then? What Israel sought so earnestly it did not obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,
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|Romanos 11:8|
as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes so that they could not see and ears so that they could not hear, to this very day.” [Deut. 29:4; Isaiah 29:10]
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|Romanos 11:9|
And David says: “May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling-block and a retribution for them.
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|Romanos 11:10|
May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent for ever.” [Psalm 69:22,23]
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