Romans 9 1-33
"I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my
conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, 2That I
have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 3For I
could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren,
my kinsmen according to the flesh: 4Who are Israelites; to whom
pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and
the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
5Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh
Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. 6Not as
though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not
all Israel, which are of Israel: 7Neither, because they are the
seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy
seed be called. 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. 9For this is the word of
promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.
10And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one,
even by our father Isaac; 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
calleth;) 12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the
younger. 13As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I
hated. 14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with
God? God forbid. 15For 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. 16So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of
him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. 17For the
scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I
raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my
name might be declared throughout all the earth. 18Therefore hath
he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he
hardeneth. 19Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find
fault? For who hath resisted his will? 20Nay but, O man, who art
thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him
that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? 21 Hath not the
potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel
unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 22What if God, willing
to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much
longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 23And
that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels
of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, 24Even us, whom
he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which
were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. 26And
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. 27Esaias also crieth concerning
Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the
sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: 28For he will finish
the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work
will the Lord make upon the earth. 29And 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. 30What shall we say
then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness,
have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is
of faith. 31But Israel, which followed after the law of
righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
32Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were
by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that
stumblingstone; 33As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a
stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on
him shall not be ashamed."