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Version 0.94.54, 23 October 2023

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Romans Chapter 9

1I am speaking the truth in Christ – I am not lying – with my conscience jointly bearing me witness by holy spirit, 2that I have great sorrow and continual distress in my heart. 3For I could vow that I myself were accursed from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh, 4who are Israelites, who have the adoption and the glory and the covenants and the instituting of the law and the service and the promises, 5of whom the fathers are, and from whom Christ is as regards the flesh, who is above all, God blessed throughout the ages. Amen. 6But it is not so that the word of God has failed. For it is not all those of Israel who are Israel, 7nor is it so that because they are the seed of Abraham, they are all children, but, “In the line of Isaac your seed will be called.” 8This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but rather that the children of the promise are counted as seed. 9For this is the word of promise: “At this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.” 10And not only this, but Rebecca also conceived from one man, Isaac our father, 11for while they had not yet been born and had not done anything good or bad (so that the purpose of God should stand by choice, not of works, but by him who does the calling) 12it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.” 13As it stands written: “I have loved Jacob, but I have hated Esau.” 14What, then, shall we say? Surely there is no injustice with God? May it not be so. 15For he says to Moses, “I will show mercy to whomever I will show mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.” 16So then, it is not a matter of him who wishes, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. 17For the scripture says to Pharaoh, “I raised you up for this very thing: that I might show my power by means of you, and so that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” 18So he has mercy on whom he wishes, and he hardens whom he wishes. 19Then you will say to me, “Why does he blame anyone then? For who is withstanding his will?” 20Rather, O man, who are you to answer back to God? Will the artefact say to the fashioner, “Why did you make me like this?”? 21Or does the potter not have the power over the clay to make from the same lump one vessel having honour, but another lacking honour? 22So what if God, wishing to show anger and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath, prepared for destruction, 23and acted in order that he might make the riches of his glory known on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory – 24us whom he called, not only out of the Jews, but also out of the Gentiles. 25As he also says in Hosea,

“I will call those who are not my people

‘My people’,

And her who was not beloved

‘Beloved.’

26And it will be the case

That in the place where it was said to them,

‘You are not my people’,

There they will be called

The sons of the living God.’ ”

27And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel,

Even if the number of the sons of Israel

Is like the sand of the sea,

The remnant will be saved.

28For he will conclude the matter

And make decrees in righteousness,

Because the Lord will carry out the pronouncement

Which has been decreed on the earth.”

29And as Isaiah foretold,

“If the Lord of hosts had not left us a seed,

We would have become like Sodom,

And we would have been made to resemble Gomorrah.”

30What, then, shall we say? – That the Gentiles who do not pursue righteousness have attained righteousness, and righteousness out of faith at that. 31But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not come up to the standard of the law of righteousness. 32How come? Because they pursued it not out of faith but out of works of the law. For they stumbled at the stumbling block, 33as it stands written:

“Behold, I put a stumbling block in Zion

And a rock of offence,

But no-one who believes in it

Will be put to shame.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 9: v.7 ↔ Genesis 21:12 ● v.9 ↔ Genesis 18:14 ● v.12 ↔ Genesis 25:23 ● v.13 ↔ Malachi 1:2, Malachi 1:3, Deuteronomy 21:15 ● v.15 ↔ Exodus 33:19 ● v.17 ↔ Exodus 9:16 ● v.20 ↔ Isaiah 29:16, Isaiah 45:9 ● v.25 ↔ Hosea 1:9, Hosea 2:1MT (Hosea 1:10AV) ● v.26 ↔ Hosea 2:1MT (Hosea 1:10AV), Hosea 2:25MT (Hosea 2:23AV) ● v.27 ↔ Isaiah 10:22 ● v.28 ↔ Isaiah 10:22, Isaiah 10:23 ● v.29 ↔ Isaiah 1:9 ● v.33 ↔ Isaiah 8:14, Isaiah 28:16, Psalm 118:22.

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