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Romans 9

Berean Standard Bible · Westminster Leningrad Codex

9:1

I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit.

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9:2

I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

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9:3

For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,

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9:4

the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

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9:5

Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever ! Amen.

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9:6

It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

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9:7

Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring .”

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9:8

So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.

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9:9

For this is what the promise stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have .”

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9:10

Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.

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9:11

Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,

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9:12

not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, “The older will serve the .”

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9:13

So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau .”

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9:14

What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!

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9:15

For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom .”

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9:16

So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.

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9:17

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the .”

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9:18

Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.

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9:19

One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”

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9:20

But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me ?”

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9:21

Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?

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9:22

What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?

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9:23

What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—

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9:24

including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?

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9:25

As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,”

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9:26

and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living .’”

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9:27

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.

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9:28

For the Lord will carry out His sentence on the earth thoroughly and .”

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9:29

It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled .”

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9:30

What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;

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9:31

but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.

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9:32

Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

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9:33

as it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock ; and the one who believes in Him .”

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