Aug. 28
Romans 9
Rom 9:1 I tell the
truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in
the Holy Spirit,
Rom 9:2 that I have
great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
Rom 9:3 For I could
wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake,
my relatives according to the flesh,
Rom 9:4 who are
Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the
giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
Rom 9:5 of whom are the
fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over
all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
Rom 9:6 But it is not
as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all
Israel, that are of Israel.
Rom 9:7 Neither,
because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In
Isaac will your seed be called."
Rom 9:8 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.
Rom 9:9 For this is a
word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah
will have a son.
Rom 9:10 Not only so,
but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.
Rom 9:11 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,
Rom 9:12 it was said to
her, "The elder will serve the younger."
Rom 9:13 Even as it is
written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."
Rom 9:14 What shall we
say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!
Rom 9:15 For he said to
Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have
compassion on whom I have compassion."
Rom 9:16 So then it is
not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
Rom 9:17 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 proclaimed in all the earth."
Rom 9:18 So then, he
has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
Rom 9:19 You will say
then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For who withstands
his will?"
Rom 9:20 But indeed, O
man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him
who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"
Rom 9:21 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?
Rom 9:22 What if God,
willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with
much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
Rom 9:23 and that he
might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which
he prepared beforehand for glory,
Rom 9:24 us, whom he
also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
Rom 9:25 As he says
also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my
people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."
Rom 9:26 "It will
be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my
people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.' "
Rom 9:27 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;
Rom 9:28 for He will
finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the LORD
will make a short work upon the earth."
Rom 9:29 As Isaiah has
said before, "Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we
would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like
Gomorrah."
Rom 9:30 What shall we
say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness,
attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
Rom 9:31 but Israel,
following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of
righteousness.
Rom 9:32 Why? Because
they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law.
They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
Rom 9:33 even as it is
written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of
offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed."