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I say the truth in Christ ,
I lie not ,
my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost ,
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That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart .
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For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren ,
my kinsmen according to the flesh :
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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 ;
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Whose are the fathers ,
and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came ,
who is over all ,
God blessed for ever .
Amen .
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Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect .
For they are not all Israel ,
which are of Israel :
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Neither ,
because they are the seed of Abraham ,
are they all children :
but ,
In Isaac shall thy seed be called .
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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 .
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For this is the word of promise ,
At this time will I come ,
and Sara shall have a son .
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And not only this ;
but when Rebecca also had conceived by one ,
even by our father Isaac ;
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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 ;)
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It was said unto her ,
The elder shall serve the younger .
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As it is written ,
Jacob have I loved ,
but Esau have I hated .
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What shall we say then ?
Is there unrighteousness with God ?
God forbid .
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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 .
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So then it is not of him that willeth ,
nor of him that runneth ,
but of God that sheweth mercy .
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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 .
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Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy ,
and whom he will he hardeneth .
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Thou wilt say then unto me ,
Why doth he yet find fault ?
For who hath resisted his will ?
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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 ?
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Hath not the potter power over the clay ,
of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour ,
and another unto dishonour ?
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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 :
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And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy ,
which he had afore prepared unto glory ,
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Even us ,
whom he hath called ,
not of the Jews only ,
but also of the Gentiles ?
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As he saith also in Osee ,
I will call them my people ,
which were not my people ;
and her beloved ,
which was not beloved .
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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 .
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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 :
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For he will finish the work ,
and cut it short in righteousness :
because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth .
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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 .