Romans 11:1-12 11I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. 2God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of 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.’ 4But what is the divine reply to him? ‘I have kept for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.’ 5So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. 6But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.* 7 What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened, 8as it is written, ‘God gave them a sluggish spirit,    eyes that would not see    and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.’  9And David says, ‘Let their table become a snare and a trap,    a stumbling-block and a retribution for them;  10 let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,    and keep their backs for ever bent.’ 11 So I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall? By no means! But through their stumbling* salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel* jealous.12Now if their stumbling* means riches for the world, and if their defeat means riches for Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!