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Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

What will we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

But no, man, who are you who replies against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,

"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There will they be called 'sons of the living God.'"

Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

that if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

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.

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:

But how does God answer him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

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."