Romans:9

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* I tell the truth in Christ . I am not lying , my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit , * that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart . * For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers ' sake , my relatives according to the flesh , * who are Israelites ; whose is the adoption , the glory , the covenants , the giving of the law , the service , and the promises ; * of whom are the fathers , and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh , who is over all , God , blessed forever . Amen . * But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing . For they are not all Israel , that are of Israel . * Neither , because they are Abraham 's seed , are they all children . But , "In Isaac will your seed be called ." {Genesis strkjv @21:12 } * That is , it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God , but the children of the promise are counted as a seed . * For this is a word of promise , "At the appointed time I will come , and Sarah will have a son ." {Genesis strkjv @18:10 ,14 } * Not only so , but Rebecca also conceived by one , by our father Isaac . * For being not yet born , neither having done anything good or bad , that the purpose of God according to election might stand , not of works , but of him who calls , {NA puts the phrase "not of works , but of him who calls " at the beginning of verse 12 instead of the end of verse 11 .} * it was said to her , "The elder will serve the younger ." {Genesis strkjv @25:23 } * Even as it is written , "Jacob I loved , but Esau I hated ." {Malachi strkjv @1:2-3 } * What shall we say then ? Is there unrighteousness with God ? May it never be ! * For he said to Moses , "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy , and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion ." {Exodus strkjv @33:19 } * So then it is not of him who wills , nor of him who runs , but of God who has mercy . * For the Scripture says to Pharaoh , "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up , that I might show in you my power , and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth ." {Exodus strkjv @9:16 } * So then , he has mercy on whom he desires , and he hardens whom he desires . * You will say then to me , "Why does he still find fault ? For who withstands his will ?" * But indeed , O man , who are you to reply against God ? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it , "Why did you make me like this ?" {Isaiah strkjv @29:16 ; strkjv @45:9 } * Or hasn 't the potter a right over the clay , from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor , and another for dishonor ? * What if God , willing to show his wrath , and to make his power known , endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction , * and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy , which he prepared beforehand for glory , * us , whom he also called , not from the Jews only , but also from the Gentiles ? * As he says also in Hosea , "I will call them 'my people ,' which were not my people ; and her 'beloved ,' who was not beloved ." {Hosea strkjv @2:23 } * "It will be that in the place where it was said to them , 'You are not my people ,' There they will be called 'children of the living God .'" {Hosea strkjv @1:10 } * Isaiah cries concerning Israel , "If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea , it is the remnant who will be saved ; * for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness , because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth ." {Isaiah strkjv @10:22-23 } * As Isaiah has said before , "Unless the Lord of Armies {Greek : Sabaoth (for Hebrew : Tze 'va 'ot )} had left us a seed , we would have become like Sodom , and would have been made like Gomorrah ." {Isaiah strkjv @1:9 } * What shall we say then ? That the Gentiles , who didn 't follow after righteousness , attained to righteousness , even the righteousness which is of faith ; * but Israel , following after a law of righteousness , didn 't arrive at the law of righteousness . * Why ? Because they didn 't seek it by faith , but as it were by works of the law . They stumbled over the stumbling stone ; * even as it is written , "Behold , I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense ; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed ." {Isaiah strkjv @8:14 ; strkjv @28:16 }

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