9Romans 9

1I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,Select Romans 9:1

2That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.Select Romans 9:2

3For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh:Select Romans 9:3

4Who are Israelites; to whom pertains the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;Select Romans 9:4

5Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.Select Romans 9:5

6Not as though the word of God has taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:Select Romans 9:6

7Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall your seed be called.Select Romans 9:7

8That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.Select Romans 9:8

9For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.Select Romans 9:9

10And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;Select Romans 9:10

11(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calls;)Select Romans 9:11

12It was said to her, The elder shall serve the younger.Select Romans 9:12

13As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.Select Romans 9:13

14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.Select Romans 9:14

15For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.Select Romans 9:15

16So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy.Select Romans 9:16

17For the scripture says to Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.Select Romans 9:17

18Therefore has he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardens.Select Romans 9:18

19You will say then to me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will?Select Romans 9:19

20No but, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?Select Romans 9:20

21Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel to honor, and another to dishonor?Select Romans 9:21

22What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:Select Romans 9:22

23And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared to glory,Select Romans 9:23

24Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?Select Romans 9:24

25As he says also in Hosea, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.Select Romans 9:25

26And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.Select Romans 9:26

27Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:Select Romans 9:27

28For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make on the earth.Select Romans 9:28

29And as Isaiah said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like to Gomorrha.Select Romans 9:29

30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.Select Romans 9:30

31But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.Select Romans 9:31

32Why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone;Select Romans 9:32

33As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling stone and rock of offense: and whoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.Select Romans 9:33