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A Remnant Preserved and Israel's Hardening

Romans 11:1-10

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Chapter 11
1 I ask then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I too am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? 3 Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life. 4 But what does the oracle say to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” 5 In this way, therefore, also in the present time a remnant according to the election of grace has come to be. 6 But if by grace, then no longer from works; otherwise, grace would no longer be grace. 7 What then? What Israel seeks, it did not attain, but the election attained it; but the rest were hardened, 8 just as it is written: "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that cannot see and ears that cannot hear, to this very day." 9 And David says, “Let their table become a trap and a snare and a stumbling block and a recompense to them.” 10 Let their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and bend their backs together forever.