But what does the divine response say to him? “I have left for myself seven thousand people[a] who have not bent the knee to Baal.”[b] So in this way also at the present time, there is a remnant selected by grace[c]. But if by grace, it is no longer by works, for otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

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Footnotes

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