Romans 9
9I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,G3004G225G1722G5547G5574G3756G3450G4893G4828G3427G4828G1722G40G41512that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart.G3754G3427G2076G3173G3077G2532G88G3601G3450G25883For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh,G1063G1473G2172G846G1511G331G575G5547G5228G3450G80G3450G4773G2596G45614who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises;G3748G1526G2475G3739G5206G2532G1391G2532G1242G2532G3548G2532G2999G2532G18605of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen.G3739G3962G2532G1537G3739G2596G4561G5547G5607G1909G3956G2316G2128G1519G165G2816But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel,G3756G3634G1161G3754G3056G2316G1601G1063G3756G3956G1537G2474G3588G3778G24747nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, "In Isaac your seed shall be called."G3761G3754G1526G4690G11G3956G5043G235G1722G2464G2564G4671G4690G25648That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed.G5123G5043G4561G5023G3756G5043G2316G235G5043G1860G3049G1519G46909For this is the word of promise: "At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son."G1063G3778G3056G1860G2596G5126G2540G2064G2532G4564G2071G520710And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by one man, even by our father IsaacG1161G3756G3440G235G4479G2532G2845G1537G1520G2192G2257G3962G246411(for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls),G1063G1080G3380G1080G3366G4238G5100G18G2228G2556G2443G4286G2316G2596G1589G3306G3756G1537G2041G235G1537G256412it was said to her, "The older shall serve the younger."G3754G4483G846G3187G1398G164013As it is written, "Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated."G2531G1125G2384G25G1161G2269G340414What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not!G5101G2046G3767G3361G93G3844G2316G3361G109615For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion."G1063G3004G3475G1653G3739G302G1653G2532G3627G3739G302G362716So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.G686G3767G3756G2309G3761G5143G235G2316G165317For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth."G1063G1124G3004G5328G3754G1519G5124G846G1825G4571G1825G3704G1731G3450G1411G1722G4671G2532G3704G3450G3686G1229G1722G3956G109318Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.G686G3767G1653G3739G2309G1161G3739G2309G464519You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?"G2046G3767G3427G5101G2089G3201G1063G5101G436G846G101320But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?"G3304G5599G444G5101G1488G4771G470G2316G3361G2046G4110G2046G4111G5101G4160G3165G377921Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?G2228G2192G3756G2763G1849G4081G1537G846G5445G3739G3303G4160G4632G1519G5092G1161G3739G1519G81922What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,G1487G1161G2316G2309G1731G3709G2532G1107G846G1415G1107G5342G1722G4183G3115G4632G3709G2675G1519G68423and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,G2532G2443G1107G4149G846G1391G1909G4632G1656G3739G4282G1519G139124even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?G3739G2532G2248G3739G2564G3756G1537G2453G3440G235G2532G1537G148425As He says also in Hosea: "I will call them My people, who were not My people, And her beloved, who was not beloved."G3004G2532G1722G5617G2564G3450G2992G3756G3450G2992G2532G25G25G3756G2526"And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not My people,' There they shall be called sons of the living God."G2532G2071G1722G5117G3757G3739G4483G846G5210G3756G3450G2992G1563G2564G5207G2198G231627Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, The remnant will be saved.G2268G1161G2896G5228G2474G1437G706G5207G2474G5600G5613G285G2281G2640G498228For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, Because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth."G1063G4931G3056G2532G4932G1722G1343G3754G4932G3056G4160G2962G4160G1909G109329And as Isaiah said before: "Unless the LORD of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We would have become like Sodom, And we would have been made like Gomorrah."G2532G2531G2268G4280G1508G2962G4519G1459G2254G4690G302G1096G5613G4670G2532G302G3666G5613G111630What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith;G5101G2046G3767G3754G1484G3588G1377G3361G1343G2638G1343G1161G1343G3588G1537G410231but Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.G1161G2474G1377G3551G1343G5348G3756G5348G1519G3551G134332Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone.G1302G3754G3756G1537G4102G235G5613G1537G2041G3551G1063G4350G3037G434833As it is written: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense, And whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame."G2531G1125G2400G5087G1722G4622G3037G4348G2532G4073G4625G2532G3956G4100G1909G846G2617G3756G2617
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