God has not repudiated his people whom he foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how (hōs | ὡς | conj) he pleads with God against Israel?

And how are they to proclaim the message unless they are sent? As it is written, “How (hōs | ὡς | particle) timely are the feet of those who preach good news!”

Why not? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as (hōs | ὡς | particle) though it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

And as Isaiah predicted, “If the Lord of hosts had not left to us descendants, we would have become like (hōs | ὡς | particle) Sodom, and would have resembled Gomorrah.”

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Even if the number of the sons of Israel were as (hōs | ὡς | particle) the sand of the sea, only a remnant will be saved;

As (hōs | ὡς | conj) he also says in Hosea, “Those who were not my people, I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved, I will call ‘beloved.’”

As it is written, “For your sake we face death all day long; we are regarded as (hōs | ὡς | conj) sheep to be slaughtered.”

Therefore, just as (hōs | ὡς | conj) one man’s transgression brought condemnation for all so also one man’s righteous act brought justification and life for all

And the gift is not like (hōs | ὡς | conj) the result of that one man’s sin; for the judgment following the one transgression led to condemnation, but the free gift following the many transgressions led to justification.

But the free gift is not like (hōs | ὡς | conj) the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one, much more did the grace of God and the gift that came by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ overflow to the many.