Rom 9
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I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the
Holy Spirit,
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that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
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For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren`s sake, my
kinsmen according to the flesh:
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who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the
giving of the law, and the service [of God], and the promises;
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whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over
all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
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But [it is] not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all
Israel, that are of Israel:
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neither, because they are Abraham`s seed, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall
your seed be called.
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That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children
of the promise are reckoned for a seed.
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For this is a word of promise, According to this season will I come, and Sarah shall
have a son.
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And not only so; but Rebecca also having conceived by one, [even] by our father Isaac--
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for [the children] being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that
the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him whom
calls",
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it was said to her, The elder shall serve the younger.
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Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.
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What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
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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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So then it is not of him whom wills, nor of him whom runs, but of God that has mercy.
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For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very purpose did I raise you up, that
I might show in you my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the
earth.
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So then he has mercy on whom he will, and whom he will be hardens.
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You will say then to me, Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?
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Nay but, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to
him whom formed it, Why did you make me thus?
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Or has not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a
vessel to honor, and another to dishonor?
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What if God, willing to show his anger, and to make his power known, endured with
much patient vessels of anger fitted to destruction:
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and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which
he afore prepared to glory,
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[even] us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
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As he says also in Hosea, I will call that my people, which was not my people; And
her beloved, that was not beloved.
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And it shall be, [that] in the place where it was said to them, You are not
my people, There shall they be called sons of the living God.
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And Isaiah cries concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as
the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved:
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for the Lord will execute [his] word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.
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And, as Isaiah has said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We
had become as Sodom, and had been made like to Gomorrah.
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What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, attained
to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:
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but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at [that] law.
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Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled
at the stone of stumbling;
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even as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense:
And he who believes on him shall not be put to shame.