⁵ It is the same way now. God treated the people of Israel with undeserved grace, and so a few of them are still his followers. ⁶ This happened because of God's undeserved kindness and not because of anything they have done. It could not have happened except for God's gift of undeserved grace.

⁷ This means that only a chosen few of the people of Israel found what all of them were searching for. And the rest of them were stubborn,