chapter_Romans_9
Romans 9:1: Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit, Romans 9:2: that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart &#8212; Romans 9:3: for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ &#8212; for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh, Romans 9:4: who are Israelites, whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises, Romans 9:5: whose are the fathers, and of whom is the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen. Romans 9:6: And it is not possible that the word of God hath failed; for not all who are of Israel are these Israel; Romans 9:7: nor because they are seed of Abraham are all children, but &#8212; 'in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;' Romans 9:8: that is, the children of the flesh &#8212; these are not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed; Romans 9:9: for the word of promise is this; 'According to this time I will come, and there shall be to Sarah a son.' Romans 9:10: And not only so, but also Rebecca, having conceived by one &#8212; Isaac our father &#8212; Romans 9:11: (for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her &#8212; Romans 9:12: 'The greater shall serve the less;' Romans 9:13: according as it hath been written, 'Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.' Romans 9:14: What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness is with God? let it not be! Romans 9:15: for to Moses He saith, 'I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;' Romans 9:16: so, then &#8212; not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness: Romans 9:17: for the Writing saith to Pharaoh &#8212; 'For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;' Romans 9:18: so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden. Romans 9:19: Thou wilt say, then, to me, 'Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?' Romans 9:20: nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form it, Why me didst thou make thus? Romans 9:21: hath not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make the one vessel to honour, and the one to dishonour? Romans 9:22: And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, Romans 9:23: and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call &#8212; us &#8212; Romans 9:24: not only out of Jews, but also out of nations, Romans 9:25: as also in Hosea He saith, 'I will call what is not My people &#8212; My people; and her not beloved &#8212; Beloved, Romans 9:26: and it shall be &#8212; in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.' Romans 9:27: And Isaiah doth cry concerning Israel, 'If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved; Romans 9:28: for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the Lord do upon the land. Romans 9:29: and according as Isaiah saith before, 'Except the Lord of Sabaoth did leave to us a seed, as Sodom we had become, and as Gomorrah we had been made like.' Romans 9:30: What, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that is of faith, Romans 9:31: and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, at a law of righteousness did not arrive; Romans 9:32: wherefore? because &#8212; not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling, Romans 9:33: according as it hath been written, 'Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.'
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