^{4 Ref} But what answer does God make to him? I have still seven thousand men whose knees have not been bent to Baal.

^{5 Ref} In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace.

^{6 Ref} But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.

^{7 Ref} What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.