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Rom 9:1

& I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit,

Rom 9:2

& that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart.

Rom 9:3

& For I could wish that I myself were accursed, {separated} from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,

Rom 9:4

& who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons, and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the {temple} service and the promises,

Rom 9:5

& whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

Rom 9:6

& But {it is} not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are {descended} from Israel;

Rom 9:7

& nor are they all children because they are Abraham's descendants, but: "THROUGH ISAAC YOUR DESCENDANTS WILL BE NAMED."

Rom 9:8

& That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants.

Rom 9:9

& For this is the word of promise: "AT THIS TIME I WILL COME, AND SARAH SHALL HAVE A SON."

Rom 9:10

& And not only this, but there was Rebekah also, when she had conceived {twins} by one man, our father Isaac;

Rom 9:11

& for though {the twins} were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God's purpose according to {His} choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls,

Rom 9:12

& it was said to her, "THE OLDER WILL SERVE THE YOUNGER."

Rom 9:13

& Just as it is written, "JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED."

Rom 9:14

& What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be!

Rom 9:15

& For He says to Moses, "I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION."

Rom 9:16

& So then it {does} not {depend} on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.

Rom 9:17

& For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "FOR THIS VERY PURPOSE I RAISED YOU UP, TO DEMONSTRATE MY POWER IN YOU, AND THAT MY NAME MIGHT BE PROCLAIMED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH."

Rom 9:18

& So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.

Rom 9:19

& You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?"

Rom 9:20

& On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it?

Rom 9:21

& Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?

Rom 9:22

& What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?

Rom 9:23

& And {He did so} to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,

Rom 9:24

& {even} us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles.

Rom 9:25

& As He says also in Hosea, "I WILL CALL THOSE WHO WERE NOT MY PEOPLE, `MY PEOPLE,' AND HER WHO WAS NOT BELOVED, `BELOVED."'

Rom 9:26

& "AND IT SHALL BE THAT IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID TO THEM, `YOU ARE NOT MY PEOPLE,' THERE THEY SHALL BE CALLED SONS OF THE LIVING GOD."

Rom 9:27

& Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, "THOUGH THE NUMBER OF THE SONS OF ISRAEL BE LIKE THE SAND OF THE SEA, IT IS THE REMNANT THAT WILL BE SAVED;

Rom 9:28

& FOR THE LORD WILL EXECUTE HIS WORD ON THE EARTH, THOROUGHLY AND QUICKLY."

Rom 9:29

& And just as Isaiah foretold, "UNLESS THE LORD OF SABAOTH HAD LEFT TO US A POSTERITY, WE WOULD HAVE BECOME LIKE SODOM, AND WOULD HAVE RESEMBLED GOMORRAH."

Rom 9:30

& What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith;

Rom 9:31

& but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at {that} law.