Romans 9
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1I speak the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit, 2that I have great grief and unceasing agony in my heart. 3For I was wishing that I myself were accursed from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh; 4who are Israelites; whose is the adoption and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the law and the service and the promises; 5whose are the fathers, and from whom is Christ according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen. 6But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all those out of Israel, these are Israel; 7nor because they are Abraham's seed are they all children; but, "In Isaac a seed will be named for you." 8That is, it is not the children of the flesh, these who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as seed. 9For this word is of promise: "According to this time I will come, and there will be a son to Sarah." 10And not only so, but Rebekah also, having conceived from one, Isaac our father— 11for they being not yet born, nor having done anything good or bad, so that the purpose of God according to election might stand, 12it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger." 13Just as it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated." 14What then will we say? Is there injustice with God? May it never be! 15For he says to Moses: "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." 16So then, it is not of the one willing, nor of the one running, but of God who has mercy. 17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: "For this very thing I raised you up, so that I might show my power in you, and so that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." 18So then, whom he wills he has mercy on, and whom he wills he hardens. 19You will say to me then: "Why then does he still find fault? For who has resisted his will?" 20O man, indeed, who are you who answer back to God? Will the molded thing say to the one molding it, "Why did you make me like this?" 21Or does not the potter have authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel for honor, and another for dishonor? 22And what if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23and so that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory? 24Even us, whom he also called, not only out of Jews but also out of nations, 25as he also says in Hosea: "I will call the not-my-people my-people, and the not-beloved beloved." 26"And it will be in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' there they will be called sons of the living God." 27And Isaiah cries out over Israel: "If the number of the sons of Israel is as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved; 28for the Lord will execute his word upon the earth, finishing a word and cutting it short in righteousness, because a cut-short word the Lord will make upon the earth." 29And as Isaiah foretold: "If the Lord of Sabaoth had not left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made like Gomorrah." 30What then will we say? That nations not pursuing righteousness laid hold of righteousness, even the righteousness that is of faith; 31but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at a law of righteousness. 32Why? Because they pursued it not of faith, but as of works of the law. For they stumbled at the stone of stumbling, 33just as it is written: "Look, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and everyone believing on him will not be put to shame."
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