dby - Romans:11:1-10

dby@Romans:11:1 @ I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For I also am an Israelite, of [the] seed of Abraham, of [the] tribe of Benjamin.

dby@Romans:11:2 @ God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture says in [the history of] Elias, how he pleads with God against Israel?

dby@Romans:11:3 @ Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thine altars; and I have been left alone, and they seek my life.

dby@Romans:11:4 @ But what says the divine answer to him? I have left to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed knee to Baal.

dby@Romans:11:5 @ Thus, then, in the present time also there has been a remnant according to election of grace.

dby@Romans:11:6 @ But if by grace, no longer of works: since [otherwise] grace is no more grace.

dby@Romans:11:7 @ What [is it] then? What Israel seeks for, that he has not obtained; but the election has obtained, and the rest have been blinded,

dby@Romans:11:8 @ according as it is written, God has given to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this day.

dby@Romans:11:9 @ And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:

dby@Romans:11:10 @ let their eyes be darkened not to see, and bow down their back alway.