| Rom. 9:1 |
I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, |
| Rom. 9:2 |
That I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart. |
| Rom. 9:3 |
For I could wish that I myself were a curse, [separated] from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh, |
| Rom. 9:4 |
Who are Israelites, whose are the sonship and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the law and the service and the promises; |
| Rom. 9:5 |
Whose are the fathers, and out of whom, as regards what is according to flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. |
| Rom. 9:6 |
But it is not as though the word of God has fallen away, for not all who are out of Israel are Israel; |
| Rom. 9:7 |
Neither is it that because they are the seed of Abraham, they are all children; but, "In Isaac shall your seed be called," |
| Rom. 9:8 |
That is, [it is] not the children of the flesh [who] are the children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted as the seed. |
| Rom. 9:9 |
For this is the word of promise, "At this time [next year] I will come, and Sarah shall have a son." |
| Rom. 9:10 |
And not only [so,] but Rebecca also, having conceived by one, Isaac our father, |
| Rom. 9:11 |
Though [the children] had not yet been born nor had done anything good or bad (that the purpose of God according to selection might remain, not of works but of Him who calls), |
| Rom. 9:12 |
It was said to her, "The greater shall serve the less"; |
| Rom. 9:13 |
As it is written, "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." |
| Rom. 9:14 |
What then shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with God? Absolutely not! |
| Rom. 9:15 |
For to Moses He says, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion." |
| Rom. 9:16 |
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. |
| Rom. 9:17 |
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very thing I have raised you up, that I might show in you My power, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth." |
| Rom. 9:18 |
So then He has mercy on whom He wills, and He hardens whom He wills. |
| Rom. 9:19 |
You will say to me then, Why does He still find fault? For who withstands His will? |
| Rom. 9:20 |
But rather, O man, who are you who answer back to God? Shall the thing molded say to him who molded it, Why did you make me thus? |
| Rom. 9:21 |
Or does not the potter have authority over the clay to make out of the same lump one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor? |
| Rom. 9:22 |
And what if God, wishing to demonstrate His wrath and make His power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, |
| Rom. 9:23 |
In order that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He had before prepared unto glory, |
| Rom. 9:24 |
[Even] us, whom He has also called, not only from among the Jews but also from among the Gentiles? |
| Rom. 9:25 |
As He also says in Hosea, "I will call those who were not My people My people, and her who was not beloved beloved; |
| Rom. 9:26 |
And it shall be that in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there shall they be called sons of the living God." |
| Rom. 9:27 |
And Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sand of the sea, [it is] the remnant [that] shall be saved; |
| Rom. 9:28 |
For the Lord will execute [His] word upon the earth, accomplishing [it] and cutting [it] short." |
| Rom. 9:29 |
And as Isaiah has previously said, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom and been made like Gomorrah." |
| Rom. 9:30 |
What then shall we say? That the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have laid hold of righteousness, but a righteousness which is out of faith; |
| Rom. 9:31 |
But Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not attain to [that] law. |
| Rom. 9:32 |
Why? Because [they pursued it] not out of faith, but as it were out of works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling, |
| Rom. 9:33 |
As it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling, a rock of offense, and he who believes on Him shall not be put to shame." |