24 “Have you not considered what these people have spoken, saying, ‘The two families which the Lord has chosen, He has also cast them off’? Thus they have (A)despised My people, as if they should no more be a nation before them.

25 “Thus says the Lord: ‘If (B)My covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not (C)appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, 26 (D)then I will (E)cast away the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, so that I will not take any of his descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will cause their captives to return, and will have mercy on them.’ ”

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God has not cast away His people whom (A)He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying, (B)Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life”? But what does the divine response say to him? (C)“I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” (D)Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

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26 And so all Israel will be [a]saved, as it is written:

(A)“The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 11:26 Or delivered

27 For (A)this is My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins.”

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