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1 I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

2 God didn’t reject his people, whom he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets. They have broken down your altars. I am left alone, and they seek my life.”

4 But how does God answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

5 Even so too at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

7 What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

8 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, to this very day.”

9 David says, “Let their table be made a snare, a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.

10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Always keep their backs bent.”