MLV(i)
2 God did not thrust away his people which he knew beforehand. Or do you not know what the Scripture says by Elijah? How he petitions God against Israel, saying,
3 ‘Lord, they have killed your prophets and have made ruins of your altars, and I am left alone and they are seeking my life.’
4 But what does the divine-answer say to him? ‘I have left to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.’
5 Therefore so there has also become a remnant according to the chosen of grace in this current time.
6 But if it is by grace, it is no more from works, otherwise grace becomes grace no more. But if it is from works, no more is it grace; otherwise work is work no more.
7 Therefore what? What Israel is seeking after, it did not obtain this, but the chosen obtained it and the rest were hardened;
8 just-as it has been written, ‘God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes in order that they should not see and ears in order that they should not hear, until this very day.’
9 And David says, ‘Let their table become for a snare and for a trap and for an offense and for a repayment to them.
10 Let their eyes be darkened not to see and may you always bow down their backs.’
11 Therefore I say, They have not tripped in order that they might fall, have they? Let it not happen! But salvation has come to the Gentiles in their trespass, that they might provoke them to jealousy. 12 Now if their trespass is the riches of the world and their loss is the riches of the Gentiles; how much more is their fullness?
11 Therefore I say, They have not tripped in order that they might fall, have they? Let it not happen! But salvation has come to the Gentiles in their trespass, that they might provoke them to jealousy. 12 Now if their trespass is the riches of the world and their loss is the riches of the Gentiles; how much more is their fullness?