Romans 9
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1 I
say the truth in Christ, I lie
not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
2 That I have great heaviness and
continual sorrow in my heart.
3 For I could wish that myself were
accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth
the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law,
and the service of God, and the promises;
5 Whose are the fathers, and
of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God
blessed for ever. Amen.
6 Not as though the word of God hath
taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of
Israel:
7 Neither, because they are the seed
of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be
called.
8 That is, They which are the
children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the
children of the promise are counted for the seed.
9 For this is the word of
promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.
10 And not only this; but
when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
11 (For the children being
not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of
God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that
calleth;)
12 It was said unto her, The elder
shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written, Jacob have I
loved, but Esau have I hated.
14 What shall we say then? Is
there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 For he saith to Moses, I will
have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I
will have compassion.
16 So then it is not of him
that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
17 For the scripture saith unto
Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might
shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all
the earth.
18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom
he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why
doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that
repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it,
Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over
the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another
unto dishonour?
22 What if God, willing to
shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much
longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the
riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared
unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he hath called, not
of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As he saith also in Osee, I will
call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was
not beloved.
26 And it shall come to pass, that
in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people;
there shall they be called the children of the living God.
27 Esaias also crieth concerning
Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the
sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28 For he will finish the work, and
cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord
make upon the earth.
29 And as Esaias said before, Except
the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been
made like unto Gomorrha.
30 What shall we
say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have
attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
31 But Israel, which followed after
the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
32 Wherefore? Because they sought
it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they
stumbled at that stumblingstone;
33 As it is written, Behold, I lay
in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on
him shall not be ashamed.
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