didn't seek me. I was revealed to those who didn't ask for me."{Isaiah 65:1} 010:021 But as to Israel he says, "All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."{Isaiah 65:2} 011:001 I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 011:002 God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel: 011:003 "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."{1 Kings 19:10,14} 011:004 But how does God answer him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal."{1 Kings 19:18} 011:005 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 011:006 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work. 011:007 What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn't obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened. 011:008 According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day."{Deuteronomy 29:4; Isaiah 29:10} 011:009 David says, "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them. 011:010 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always."{Psalm 69:22,23} 011:011 I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. 011:012 Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness? 011:013 For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry; 011:014 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them. 011:015 For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead? 011:016 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches. 011:017 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree; 011:018 don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you. 011:019 You will say then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."