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9 : 1 I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit,
9 : 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart.
9 : 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,
9 : 4 who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons, and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the temple service and the promises,
9 : 5 whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.
9 : 6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel;
9 : 7 nor are they all children because they are Abraham`s descendants, but: "THROUGH ISAAC YOUR DESCENDANTS WILL BE NAMED."
9 : 8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants.
9 : 9 For this is the word of promise: "AT THIS TIME I WILL COME, AND SARAH SHALL HAVE A SON."
9 : 10 And not only this, but there was Rebekah also, when she had conceived twins by one man, our father Isaac;
9 : 11 for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God`s purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls,
9 : 12 it was said to her, "THE OLDER WILL SERVE THE YOUNGER."
9 : 13 Just as it is written, "JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED."
9 : 14 What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be!
9 : 15 For He says to Moses, "I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION."
9 : 16 So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.
9 : 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "FOR THIS VERY PURPOSE I RAISED YOU UP, TO DEMONSTRATE MY POWER IN YOU, AND THAT MY NAME MIGHT BE PROCLAIMED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH."
9 : 18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.
9 : 19 You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?"
9 : 20 On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it?
9 : 21 Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?
9 : 22 What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?
9 : 23 And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,
9 : 24 even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles.
9 : 25 As He says also in Hosea, "I WILL CALL THOSE WHO WERE NOT MY PEOPLE, `MY PEOPLE,` AND HER WHO WAS NOT BELOVED, `BELOVED.`"
9 : 26 AND IT SHALL BE THAT IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID TO THEM, `YOU ARE NOT MY PEOPLE,` THERE THEY SHALL BE CALLED SONS OF THE LIVING GOD.
9 : 27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, "THOUGH THE NUMBER OF THE SONS OF ISRAEL BE LIKE THE SAND OF THE SEA, IT IS THE REMNANT THAT WILL BE SAVED;
9 : 28 FOR THE LORD WILL EXECUTE HIS WORD ON THE EARTH, THOROUGHLY AND QUICKLY."
9 : 29 And just as Isaiah foretold, "UNLESS THE LORD OF SABAOTH HAD LEFT TO US A POSTERITY, WE WOULD HAVE BECOME LIKE SODOM, AND WOULD HAVE RESEMBLED GOMORRAH."
9 : 30 What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith;
9 : 31 but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.
9 : 32 Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
9 : 33 just as it is written, "BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE, AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED."