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Romans 8

## The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

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| # Chapter 9
#### 1 | I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,
#### 2 | that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
#### 3 | For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,
#### 4 | who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
#### 5 | whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
#### 6 | But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.
#### 7 | Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, 'In Isaac will your seed be called.'
#### 8 | That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.
#### 9 | For this is a word of promise, 'At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.'
#### 10 | Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.
#### 11 | For 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 who calls,
#### 12 | it was said to her, 'The elder will serve the younger.'
#### 13 | Even as it is written, 'Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.'
#### 14 | What will we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not!
#### 15 | For he said to Moses, 'I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.'
#### 16 | So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
#### 17 | For the scripture says to Pharaoh, 'For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth.'
#### 18 | So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
#### 19 | You will say then to me, 'Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?'
#### 20 | But no, man, who are you who replies against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?'
#### 21 | Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
#### 22 | What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
#### 23 | and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,
#### 24 | us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
#### 25 | As he says also in Hosea, 'I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; And her 'beloved,' who was not beloved.'
#### 26 | 'It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There will they be called 'sons of the living God.''
#### 27 | Isaiah cries concerning Israel, 'If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, It is the remnant who will be saved;
#### 28 | For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, Because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth.'
#### 29 | As Isaiah has said before, 'Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us a seed, We would have become like Sodom, And would have been made like Gomorrah.'
#### 30 | What will we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
#### 31 | but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness.
#### 32 | Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
#### 33 | even as it is written, 'Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. And no one who believes in him will be put to shame.'

Romans 10

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