1 Therefore I say, God has not rejected his people, has he? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, from the descendants of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God has not rejected his people, whom he foreknew! Or do you not know, in the passage about Elijah, what the scripture says—how he appeals to God against Israel?
3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life!”
4 But what does the divine response say to him? “I have left for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal.”
5 So in this way also at the present time, there is a remnant selected by grace.
6 But if by grace, it is no longer by works, for otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
7 What then? What Israel was searching for, this it did not obtain. But the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened,