Young's Literal Translation YLT
New International Version NIV
1 I 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:
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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.
2 God 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,
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God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don’t you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he appealed to God against Israel:
3 `Lord, Thy prophets they did kill, and Thy altars they dug down, and I was left alone, and they seek my life;'
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“Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me” ?
4 but what saith the divine answer to him? `I left to Myself seven thousand men, who did not bow a knee to Baal.'
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And what was God’s answer to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
5 So then also in the present time a remnant according to the choice of grace there hath been;
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So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
6 and 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.
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And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.
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