^{1 Ref} I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

^{2 Ref} God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel:

^{3 Ref} Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

^{4 Ref} But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have left for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.

^{5 Ref} Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

^{6 Ref} But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.

^{7 Ref} What then? that which Israel seeketh for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened:

^{8 Ref} according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day.

^{9 Ref} And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, And a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them:

^{10 Ref} Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, And bow thou down their back always.

^{11 Ref} I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? God forbid: but by their fall salvation `is come' unto the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

^{12 Ref} Now if their fall, is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?