Romans Chapter 9
9:1 | I say the ![]() |
9:2 | That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. |
9:3 | For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: |
9:4 | Who are Israelites; to whom [pertaineth] the adoption, and the ![]() |
9:5 | Whose [are] the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ [came], who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. |
9:6 | Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they [are] not all ![]() ![]() |
9:7 | Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, [are they] all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. |
9:8 | That 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. |
9:9 | For this [is] the word of promise, At this ![]() |
9:10 | And not only [this]; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, [even] by our father Isaac; |
9:11 | (For [the children] being not yet born, neither having done any good or ![]() |
9:12 | It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. |
9:13 | As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. |
9:14 | What shall we say then? [Is there] unrighteousness with God? God forbid. |
9:15 | For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. |
9:16 | So then [it is] not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. |
9:17 | For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my ![]() ![]() |
9:18 | Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will [have mercy], and whom he will he hardeneth. |
9:19 | Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? |
9:20 | Nay but, O man, who ![]() |
9:21 | Hath not the potter ![]() |
9:22 | [What] if God, willing to show [his] wrath, and to make his ![]() |
9:23 | And that he might make known the riches of his ![]() ![]() |
9:24 | Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? |
9:25 | As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. |
9:26 | And it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye [are] not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God. |
9:27 | Esaias also crieth concerning ![]() ![]() |
9:28 | For he will finish the work, and cut [it] short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the ![]() |
9:29 | And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha. |
9:30 | What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. |
9:31 | But ![]() |
9:32 | Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; |
9:33 | As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. |