Romans 09

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Romans 9:1

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1) I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it in the Holy Spirit—

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Romans 9:2

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2) I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

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Romans 9:3

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3) For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race,

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Romans 9:4

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

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Romans 9:5

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5) Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen.

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Romans 9:6

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6) It is not as though God's word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

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Romans 9:7

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7) Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham's children. On the contrary, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned."

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Romans 9:8

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8) In other words, it is not the natural children who are God's children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham's offspring.

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Romans 9:9

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9) For this was how the promise was stated: "At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son."

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Romans 9:10

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10) Not only that, but Rebekah's children had one and the same father, our father Isaac.

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Romans 9:11

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11) Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God's purpose in election might stand:

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Romans 9:12

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12) not by works but by him who calls—she was told, "The older will serve the younger."

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Romans 9:13

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13) Just as it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

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Romans 9:14

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14) What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all!

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Romans 9:15

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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."

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Romans 9:16

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16) It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy.

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Romans 9:17

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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 earth."

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Romans 9:18

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18) Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

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Romans 9:19

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19) One of you will say to me: "Then why does God still blame us? For who resists his will?"

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Romans 9:20

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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 like this?' "

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Romans 9:21

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21) Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?

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Romans 9:22

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22) What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?

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Romans 9:23

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23) What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory—

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Romans 9:24

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24) even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

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Romans 9:25

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25) As he says in Hosea:
"I will call them 'my people' who are not my people;
and I will call her 'my loved one' who is not my loved one,"

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Romans 9:26

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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 God.' "

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Romans 9:27

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27) Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:
"Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,
only the remnant will be saved.

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Romans 9:28

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28) For the Lord will carry out
his sentence on earth with speed and finality."

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Romans 9:29

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29) It is just as Isaiah said previously:
"Unless the Lord Almighty
had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
we would have been like Gomorrah."

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Romans 9:30

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

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Romans 9:31

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

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Romans 9:32

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32) Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the "stumbling stone."

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Romans 9:33

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33) As it is written:
"See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall,
and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."