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9
Romans 9:1-33
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 pertaineth
the 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 there unrighteousness
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 it short 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 it not 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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