ROMANS -- CHAPTER 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 pertaineththe 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 thereunrighteousness 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 itshort 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 itnot 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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