God Has Not Rejected Israel

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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.

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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:

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

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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.

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

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But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.

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What then? That which Israel seeketh for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened:

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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.

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And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, And a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them:

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Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, And bow thou down their back always.