God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
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- WEB 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:
- BSB God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel:
- NKJV God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,
- NASB God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?
- NLT No, God has not rejected his own people, whom he chose from the very beginning. Do you realize what the Scriptures say about this? Elijah the prophet complained to God about the people of Israel and said,
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Quick answer
God has not rejected Israel, the people he foreknew; Paul recalls Elijah, who thought he alone was faithful.
Overview
Paul answers his own question from verse 1 by appealing to God's prior, electing love ('foreknew') for his people. He introduces the example of Elijah (1 Kings 19), who pleaded against Israel believing himself the last faithful one. The verse sets up the principle that even in widespread unbelief God preserves a faithful remnant, which guards against the despairing conclusion that God's purposes have failed.
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- Ps 94:14For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
- Rom 8:29–30For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
- 1 Pet 1:2Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
- Acts 3:17And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
- Num 16:15And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.
- Gen 44:15And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
- Exod 32:1And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
- Rom 9:23And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
- Acts 7:40Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
- Acts 13:48And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
- Rom 9:6Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
- Neh 9:30Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
- Heb 1:1God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
- John 4:11The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
- Acts 15:18Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
- John 4:1–3When therefore the LORD knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,
- Jer 18:19–23Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
- Luke 4:1And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
- Phil 1:22But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
- 1 Cor 6:2Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
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