Romans:9:1-29

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* I tell [the ] truth in Christ , I do not lie , my conscience also bearing me witness in [the ] Holy Spirit , * that I have great heaviness and continual pain in my heart . * For I myself was wishing to be accursed from Christ for my brothers , my kinsmen according to the flesh , * who are Israelites ; to whom [belong ] the adoption , and the glory , and the covenants , and the giving of the Law , and the service [of God ], and the promises ; * whose [are ] the fathers , and of whom [is ] the Christ according to flesh , He being God over all , blessed forever . Amen . * Not however that the word of God has failed , for not all those of Israel [are ] Israel ; * nor because they are the seed of Abraham [are they ] all children . But , In Isaac shall your Seed be called . * That is , not the children of the flesh [are ] children of God ; but the children of the promise [are ] counted for a seed . * For this [is ] the word of promise : At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son . * And not only [this ], but when Rebekah also had conceived by one , by our father Isaac * (for [the children ] had not yet been born , neither had done any good or evil ; but that the purpose of God according to election might stand , not of works but of Him who called ,) * it was said to her , The elder shall serve the younger . * As it is written , Jacob have I loved , but Esau have I hated . * What shall we say then ? [Is there ] not unrighteousness with God ? Let it not be ! * For He said to Moses , I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy , and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion . * So then [it is ] not of the [one ] willing , nor of the [one ] running , but of God , the [One ] showing mercy . * For the Scripture says to Pharaoh , Even for this same purpose I have raised you up , that I might show My power in you , and that My name might be declared throughout all the earth . * Therefore He has mercy on whom He will [have mercy ], and whom He will , He hardens . * You will then say to me , Why does He yet find fault ? For who has resisted His will ? * No , but , O man , who are you who replies against God ? Shall the thing formed say to Him who formed [it ], Why have you made me this way ? * Does not the potter have power over the clay , from the same lump to make one vessel to honor and another to dishonor ? * [What ] if God , willing to show His wrath and to make His power known , endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction ; * and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy which He had before prepared to glory ; * whom He also called , not only us , of Jews , but also of the nations ? * As He also says in Hosea , I will call those not My people , My people ; and those not beloved , Beloved . * And it shall be , in the place where it was said to them . You [are ] not My people ; there they shall be called sons of the living God . * Isaiah also cries concerning Israel , Though the number of the sons of Israel is as the sands of the sea , a remnant shall be saved . * For [He is ] bringing [the ] matter to an end , and cutting short in righteousness , because [the ] Lord will make a short work on the earth . * And as Isaiah said before , Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed , we would have been as Sodom , and would have been like Gomorrah .

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