Romans 9
9I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit—G3004G225G1722G5547G5574G3756G3450G4893G4828G3427G4828G1722G40G41512that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.G3754G3427G2076G3173G3077G2532G88G3601G3450G25883For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.G1063G1473G2172G846G1511G331G575G5547G5228G3450G80G3450G4773G2596G45614They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.G3748G1526G2475G3739G5206G2532G1391G2532G1242G2532G3548G2532G2999G2532G18605To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.G3739G3962G2532G1537G3739G2596G4561G5547G5607G1909G3956G2316G2128G1519G165G2816But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,G3756G3634G1161G3754G3056G2316G1601G1063G3756G3956G1537G2474G3588G3778G24747and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named."G3761G3754G1526G4690G11G3956G5043G235G1722G2464G2564G4671G4690G25648This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.G5123G5043G4561G5023G3756G5043G2316G235G5043G1860G3049G1519G46909For this is what the promise said: "About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son."G1063G3778G3056G1860G2596G5126G2540G2064G2532G4564G2071G520710And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac,G1161G3756G3440G235G4479G2532G2845G1537G1520G2192G2257G3962G246411though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls—G1063G1080G3380G1080G3366G4238G5100G18G2228G2556G2443G4286G2316G2596G1589G3306G3756G1537G2041G235G1537G256412she was told, "The older will serve the younger."G3754G4483G846G3187G1398G164013As it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."G2531G1125G2384G25G1161G2269G340414What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means!G5101G2046G3767G3361G93G3844G2316G3361G109615For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."G1063G3004G3475G1653G3739G302G1653G2532G3627G3739G302G362716So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.G686G3767G3756G2309G3761G5143G235G2316G165317For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."G1063G1124G3004G5328G3754G1519G5124G846G1825G4571G1825G3704G1731G3450G1411G1722G4671G2532G3704G3450G3686G1229G1722G3956G109318So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.G686G3767G1653G3739G2309G1161G3739G2309G464519You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?"G2046G3767G3427G5101G2089G3201G1063G5101G436G846G101320But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like this?"G3304G5599G444G5101G1488G4771G470G2316G3361G2046G4110G2046G4111G5101G4160G3165G377921Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?G2228G2192G3756G2763G1849G4081G1537G846G5445G3739G3303G4160G4632G1519G5092G1161G3739G1519G81922What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,G1487G1161G2316G2309G1731G3709G2532G1107G846G1415G1107G5342G1722G4183G3115G4632G3709G2675G1519G68423in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—G2532G2443G1107G4149G846G1391G1909G4632G1656G3739G4282G1519G139124even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?G3739G2532G2248G3739G2564G3756G1537G2453G3440G235G2532G1537G148425As indeed he says in Hosea, "Those who were not my people I will call 'my people,' and her who was not beloved I will call 'beloved.'"G3004G2532G1722G5617G2564G3450G2992G3756G3450G2992G2532G25G25G3756G2526"And in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' there they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"G2532G2071G1722G5117G3757G3739G4483G846G5210G3756G3450G2992G1563G2564G5207G2198G231627And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved,G2268G1161G2896G5228G2474G1437G706G5207G2474G5600G5613G285G2281G2640G498228for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay."G1063G4931G3056G2532G4932G1722G1343G3754G4932G3056G4160G2962G4160G1909G109329And as Isaiah predicted, "If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring, we would have been like Sodom and become like Gomorrah."G2532G2531G2268G4280G1508G2962G4519G1459G2254G4690G302G1096G5613G4670G2532G302G3666G5613G111630What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;G5101G2046G3767G3754G1484G3588G1377G3361G1343G2638G1343G1161G1343G3588G1537G410231but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law.G1161G2474G1377G3551G1343G5348G3756G5348G1519G3551G134332Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,G1302G3754G3756G1537G4102G235G5613G1537G2041G3551G1063G4350G3037G434833as it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame."G2531G1125G2400G5087G1722G4622G3037G4348G2532G4073G4625G2532G3956G4100G1909G846G2617G3756G2617
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