11:6And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
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11:1I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
11:2God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias (Elijah)? How he maketh intercession to God against Israel saying,
11:3Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
11:4But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
11:5Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
11:6And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
11:7What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
11:8(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
11:9And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
11:10Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
11:11I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.