Israel’s Rejection Not Total

11 I say then, ^(A)has God cast away His people? ^(B)Certainly not! For ^(C)I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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²² Are they ^(A)Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.

²² For ^(A)the Lord will not forsake ^(B)His people, ^(C)for His great name’s sake, because ^(D)it has pleased the Lord to make you His people.

⁵ circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, ^(A)of the tribe of Benjamin, ^(B)a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, ^(C)a Pharisee;

²⁴ “Have you not considered what these people have spoken, saying, ‘The two families which the Lord has chosen, He has also cast them off’? Thus they have ^(A)despised My people, as if they should no more be a nation before them.

²⁵ “Thus says the Lord: ‘If ^(B)My covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not ^(C)appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, ^26 (D)then I will ^(E)cast away the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, so that I will not take any of his descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will cause their captives to return, and will have mercy on them.’ ”

⁴ “My manner of life from my youth, which was spent from the beginning among my own nation at Jerusalem, all the Jews know.

^3 (A)“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city ^(B)at the feet of ^(C)Gamaliel, taught ^(D)according to the strictness of our fathers’ law, and ^(E)was zealous toward God ^(F)as you all are today.

³⁷ Thus says the Lord: