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title: Romans 9
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createdAt: 2024-09-11T01:16:54.473Z
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**1 **I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, **2 **That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. **3 **For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: **4 **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; **5 **Whose *are* the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ *came*, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

**6 **Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they *are* not all Israel, which are of Israel: **7 **Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, *are they* all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. **8 **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. **9 **For this *is* the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son. **10 **And not only *this*; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, *even* by our father Isaac; **11 **(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;) **12 **It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. **13 **As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

**14 **What shall we say then? *Is there* unrighteousness with God? God forbid. **15 **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. **16 **So then *it is* not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. **17 **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. **18 **Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will *have mercy*, and whom he will he hardeneth.

**19 **Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? **20 **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? **21 **Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? **22 ***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: **23 **And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, **24 **Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

**25 **As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.

**26 **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.

**27 **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: **28 **For he will finish the work, and cut *it* short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

**29 **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.

**30 **What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. **31 **But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. **32 **Wherefore? Because *they sought it* not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;

**33 **As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.