Romans 9 1-33
"I say
the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness
in the Holy Ghost, 2That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow
in my heart. 3For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ
for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: 4Who 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; 5Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh
Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. 6Not as
though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all
Israel, which are of Israel: 7Neither, because they are the seed of
Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be
called. 8That 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. 9For this is the word of promise, At this time will I
come, and Sara shall have a son. 10And 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. 13As it is written, Jacob have I
loved, but Esau have I hated. 14What shall we say then? Is there
unrighteousness with God? God forbid. 15For 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. 16So then it is not of him that willeth,
nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. 17For 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. 18Therefore hath he mercy
on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. 19Thou
wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath
resisted his will? 20Nay 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? 22What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his
power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath
fitted to destruction: 23And that he might make known the riches of
his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto
glory, 24Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also
of the Gentiles? 25As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my
people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not
beloved. 26And 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. 27Esaias also crieth concerning Israel,
Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the
sea, a remnant shall be saved: 28For he will finish the work, and cut
it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make
upon the earth. 29And 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. 30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which
followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness,
even the righteousness which is of faith. 31But Israel, which
followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law
of righteousness. 32Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith,
but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that
stumblingstone; 33As 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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