Romans 9:1-33 LSV

[1] Truth I say in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit, [2] that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart— [3] for I was wishing, I myself, to be accursed from the Christ—for my brothers, my relatives, according to the flesh, [4] who are Israelites, whose [is] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises, [5] whose [are] the fathers, and of whom [is] the Christ, according to the flesh, who is God over all, blessed for all ages. Amen. [6] And it is not possible that the word of God has failed; for not all who [are] of Israel are these of Israel; [7] nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children, but, “in Isaac will a seed be called to you”; [8] that is, the children of the flesh—these [are] not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed; [9] for the word of promise [is] this: “According to this time I will come, and there will be to Sarah a son.” [10] And not only [so], but also Rebecca, having conceived by one—our father Isaac [11] (for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to [divine] selection, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling), [12] it was said to her, “The greater will serve the less”; [13] according as it has been written: “Jacob I loved, and Esau I hated.” [14] What, then, will we say? Unrighteousness [is] with God? Let it not be! [15] For to Moses He says, “I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion”; [16] so then—not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness; [17] for the Writing says to Pharaoh, “For this very thing I raised you up, that I might show in you My power, and that My Name might be declared in all the land”; [18] so then, to whom He wills, He does kindness, and to whom He wills, He hardens. [19] You will say, then, to me, “Why does He yet find fault? For who has resisted His counsel?” [20] No, but, O man, who are you that are answering again to God? Will the thing formed say to Him who formed [it], Why did you make me thus? [21] Does the potter not have authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel to honor and one to dishonor? [22] And if God, willing to show the wrath and to make known His power, endured, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, [23] and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He called—us— [24] not only out of Jews, but also out of nations, [25] as also in Hosea He says, “I will call what [is] not My people—My people; and her not beloved—Beloved, [26] and it will be—in the place where it was said to them, You [are] not My people; there they will be called sons of the living God.” [27] And Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved; [28] for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the LORD do on the land.” [29] And according as Isaiah says before, “Except the LORD of Hosts left to us a seed, we had become as Sodom, and we had been made like Gomorrah.” [30] What, then, will we say? That nations who are not pursuing righteousness attained to righteousness, and righteousness that [is] of faith, [31] and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at a law of righteousness; [32] why? Because—not by faith, but as by works of law; for they stumbled at the stone of stumbling, [33] according as it has been written: “Behold, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and everyone who is believing thereon will not be ashamed.”