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33 Cards in this Set
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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." |