Romans 11:1-10

The Remnant of Israel

1 I ask, then, 1has God rejected his people? By no means! For 2I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham,[a] a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 3God has not rejected his people whom he 4foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?
3 5"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life."
4 But what is God's reply to him? 6"I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."
5 So too at the present time there is 7a remnant, chosen by grace.
6 8But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
7 What then? 9Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest 10were hardened,
8 as it is written, 11"God gave them a spirit of stupor, 12eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day."
9 And David says, 13"Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;
10 let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and bend their backs forever."

Cross References 13

  • 1. 1 Samuel 12:22; Jeremiah 31:37; Jeremiah 33:24
  • 2. 2 Corinthians 11:22; Philippians 3:5
  • 3. Psalms 94:14
  • 4. Romans 8:29
  • 5. Cited from 1 Kings 19:10, 14
  • 6. Cited from 1 Kings 19:18
  • 7. Romans 9:27; [Jeremiah 3:14; Zechariah 13:8]
  • 8. [Romans 4:4; Deuteronomy 9:4, 5]
  • 9. See Romans 9:31
  • 10. [ver. 25]
  • 11. Isaiah 29:10
  • 12. Deuteronomy 29:4; [Isaiah 43:8; Jeremiah 5:21; Ezekiel 12:2; Ephesians 4:18]; See Matthew 13:14
  • 13. Cited from Psalms 69:22, 23

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or one of the offspring of Abraham
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