RO-9:1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also
bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
RO-9:2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my
heart.
RO-9:3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ
for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
RO-9:4 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;
RO-9:5 Whose [are] the fathers, and of whom as concerning the
flesh Christ [came], who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
RO-9:6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For
they [are] not all Israel, which are of Israel:
RO-9:7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, [are they]
all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
RO-9:8 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.
RO-9:9 For this [is] the word of promise, At this time will I
come, and Sarah shall have a son.
RO-9:10 And not only [this]; but when Rebecca also had conceived
by one, [even] by our father Isaac;
RO-9:11 (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;)
RO-9:12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
RO-9:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I
hated.
RO-9:14 What shall we say then? [Is there] unrighteousness with
God? God forbid.
RO-9:15 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.
RO-9:16 So then [it is] not of him that willeth, nor of him that
runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.
RO-9:17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same
purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in
thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the
earth.
RO-9:18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will [have mercy],
and whom he will he hardeneth.
RO-9:19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault?
For who hath resisted his will?
RO-9:20 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?
RO-9:21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same
lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
RO-9:22 [What] if God, willing to show [his] wrath, and to make
his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of
wrath fitted to destruction:
RO-9:23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on
the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
RO-9:24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but
also of the Gentiles?
RO-9:25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people,
which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
RO-9:26 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.
RO-9:27 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:
RO-9:28 For he will finish the work, and cut [it] short in
righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the
earth.
RO-9:29 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.
RO-9:30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which
followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness,
even the righteousness which is of faith.
RO-9:31 But Israel, which followed after the law of
righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
RO-9:32 Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as
it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that
stumblingstone;
RO-9:33 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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