Romans:9:1-29
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I AM speaking the truth in Christ ;
I am saying nothing false ;
my conscience bears witness with me in the Holy Spirit
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that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart .
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For I could wish myself to be accursed and cast away from Christ for the sake of my brethren ,
my kinsmen according to the flesh ,
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who are Israelites ,
whose is the sonship and the glory and the covenants and the reception of the law and the worship and the promises ;
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whose are the fathers and from whom by physical descent the Christ came .
God who is over all be blessed through the ages !
Amen .
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Not that God '
s word has failed .
For not all who are of Israel are Israel ;
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nor because they are descendants of Abraham are they all children ;
but "
through Isaac shall your descendants be named ."
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That is ,
not the physical descendants are children ,
but the children of the promise are counted for descendants .
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For the wording of the promise was , "
At this time next year I will come and Sarah shall have a son ."
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And not only so ,
but when Rebecca was about to bear children to our father Isaac ,
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though the same man was father of both children and they were not yet born and had done nothing good or bad ,
in order that the purpose of God according to his choice might stand ,
not according to their works ,
but according to his call ,
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it was said to her , "
The older shall serve the younger ."
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In the same way it is written , "
Jacob I loved ,
but Esau I hated ."
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What shall we say then ?
Is there unrighteousness on God '
s part ?
Never .
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For he says to Moses , "
I will have mercy on whom I have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion ."
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So then it is not a question of the man who wills or who runs ,
but of God who shows mercy .
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For the Scripture says to Pharaoh , "
For this very purpose I raised you up in order to show my power upon you and to have my name proclaimed in all the earth ."
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So then he has mercy on whom he chooses and he hardens whom he chooses .
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You will say to me then , "
Why does he still find fault ?
For who has opposed his will ?"
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But who are you ,
O man ,
who are answering back to God ?
Does the thing that is moulded say to the moulder , "
Why have you made me so ?"
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Has not the potter the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for honor and another for dishonor ?
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What if God ,
choosing to exhibit his wrath and to make known what he can do ,
bore in long patience the vessels of wrath made for destruction ,
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and in order to make known the richness of his glory upon the vessels of mercy which he had prepared for glory
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called us not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles ?
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As also he says in Hosea , "
Those who are not my people I will call my people ,
and her who has not been beloved I will call beloved ,
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and in the place where it was said to them , '
You are not my people ,'
there they shall be called sons of the living God ."
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Isaiah cried aloud regarding Israel , "
Though the number of the sons of Israel is as the sand of the sea ,
only a remnant will be saved .
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For the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth completely and speedily ."
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Even as Isaiah predicted , "
Unless the Lord of armies had left us some descendants ,
we should have become like Sodom and should have been made to resemble Gomorrah ."
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