1. So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
2. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?
3. “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars; I alone am left and they are seeking my life!”
4. But what was the divine response to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal.”
5. So in the same way at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
6. And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.