“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life!”[a] But what does the divine response say to him? “I have left for myself seven thousand people[b] who have not bent the knee to Baal.”[c] So in this way also at the present time, there is a remnant selected by grace[d].

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 11:3 A quotation from 1 Kgs 19:10, 14
  2. Romans 11:4 Or perhaps “males,” referring to men only
  3. Romans 11:4 A quotation from 1 Kgs 19:18
  4. Romans 11:5 Literally “according to selection of grace”