Romans:9

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* I speak truth in Christ , I do not lie , my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit , that * I have great grief and unceasing anguish in my heart . * For I could wish to be myself accursed and cast out from Christ in behalf of my brethren , my kinsmen as to the flesh ; * who are Israelites ; whom God adopted as sons , whose was the glory , and the covenants , and the giving of the Law , and the service of the sanctuary , and the promises ; * whose are the fathers , and from whom , as to the flesh , was the Christ . He who is over all , God , be blessed for ever ! Amen . * Not as though the word of God hath failed ; for not all they that are of Israel are Israel ; * nor because they are descendants of Abraham are they all children ; but , "Thy offspring shall be reckoned from Isaac ." * That is , not the children by natural descent are children of God , but the children to whom the promise is made are accounted as the offspring . * For the word of promise is this : "At this time I will come , and Sarah shall have a son ." * And not only so , but also when Rebecca had conceived by one man , our father Isaac , * before the children were born , or had done any thing good or evil , to the end that God ’s purpose according to election might stand , not depending on works , but on the will of him that calleth , * it was said to her , "The elder shall serve the younger :" * as it is written , "Jacob I loved , but Esau I hated ." * What then shall we say ? Is there injustice with God ? Far be it ! * For he saith to Moses , "On whom I have mercy , on him will I have mercy ; and on whom I have compassion , on him will I have compassion ." * So then it dependeth not on him that willeth , nor on him that runneth , but on God who showeth mercy . * For the Scripture saith to Pharaoh , "For this very purpose did I raise thee up , that I might show forth my power in thee , and that my name might be made known in all the earth ." * So then he hath mercy on whom he will , and hardeneth whom he will . * Hence thou wilt say to me , Why then doth he still find fault ? for who resisteth his will ? * Nay but , O man , who art thou that makest answer to God ? Shall the thing that is wrought say to the workman , Why hast thou made me thus ? * Hath not the potter a right out of the same lump of clay to make one vessel for an honorable use , and another for a dishonorable ? * What if God endured with much patience vessels of wrath fitted for destruction , purposing to manifest his wrath and to make known his power ; * purposing also to make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy , which he had before prepared for glory , * whom he also called , even us , not only from among the Jews , but also from among the gentiles ? * as he also saith in Hosea , "I will call that my people , which was not my people ; and her beloved , that was not beloved . * And it shall be , that 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 Isaiah crieth out concerning Israel , "Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea , only the remnant will be saved . * For he is accomplishing his word and speedily fulfilling it in righteousness ; for a speedily fulfilled word will the Lord execute upon the earth ." * And as Isaiah hath said before , "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed , we should have become as Sodom , and been made like Gomorrah ." * What then shall we say ? That the gentiles , who did not strive after righteousness , obtained righteousness , but a righteousness which is of faith ; * while Israel , which strove after a law of righteousness , did not attain to a law of righteousness . * Why ? Because they did not strive for it by faith , but as being by works . For they stumbled against the stone of stumbling ; * as it is written , "Behold , I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence ; and he that believeth in him shall not be put to shame ."

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