Romans:9:1-29

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* I say [the ] truth in Christ , I lie not , my conscience bearing witness with me in [the ] Holy Spirit , * that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart , * for I have wished , I myself , to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren , my kinsmen , according to flesh ; * who are Israelites ; whose [is ] the adoption , and the glory , and the covenants , and the law-giving , and the service , and the promises ; * whose [are ] the fathers ; and of whom , as according to flesh , [is ] the Christ , who is over all , God blessed for ever . Amen . * Not however as though the word of God had failed ; for not all [are ] Israel which [are ] of Israel ; * nor because they are seed of Abraham [are ] all children : but , In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee . * That is , [they that are ] the children of the flesh , these [are ] not the children of God ; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed . * For this word [is ] of promise , According to this time I will come , and there shall be a son to Sarah . * And not only [that ], but Rebecca having conceived by one , Isaac our father , * [the children ] indeed being not yet born , or having done anything good or worthless (that the purpose of God according to election might abide , not of works , but of him that calls ), * it was said to her , The greater shall serve the less : * according as it is written , I have loved Jacob , and I have hated Esau . * What shall we say then ? [Is there ] unrighteousness with God ? Far be the thought . * For he says to Moses , I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy , and I will feel compassion for whom I will feel compassion . * So then [it is ] not of him that wills , nor of him that runs , but of God that shews mercy . * For the scripture says to Pharaoh , For this very thing I have raised thee up from amongst [men ], that I might thus shew in thee my power , and so that my name should be declared in all the earth . * So then , to whom he will he shews mercy , and whom he will he hardens . * Thou wilt say to me then , Why does he yet find fault ? for who resists his purpose ? * Aye , but thou , O man , who art thou that answerest again to God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it , Why hast thou made me thus ? * Or has not the potter authority over the clay , out of the same lump to make one vessel to honour , and another to dishonour ? * And if God , minded to shew his wrath and to make his power known , endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction ; * and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy , which he had before prepared for glory , * us , whom he has also called , not only from amongst [the ] Jews , but also from amongst [the ] nations ? * As he says also in Hosea , I will call not-my-people My people ; and the-not-beloved Beloved . * And it shall be , in the place where it was said to them , Ye [are ] not my people , there shall they be called Sons of [the ] living God . * But Esaias cries concerning Israel , Should the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea , the remnant shall be saved : * for [he ] is bringing the matter to an end , and [cutting [it ] short in righteousness ; because ] a cutting short of the matter will [the ] Lord accomplish upon the earth . * And according as Esaias said before , Unless [the ] Lord of hosts had left us a seed , we had been as Sodom , and made like even as Gomorrha .

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