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9:1  I say the truth in Christ. I do not lie; my conscience bearing me witness in the holy Ghost,
9:2  so that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
9:3  For I could wish myself to be accursed, to be separated from Christ, for my brothers who are my kinsmen according to the flesh,
9:4  (who are the Israelites), to whom pertains the adoption, and the glory, and the Covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the service of God, and the promises;
9:5  from whom are the Fathers, and from whom, concerning the flesh, Christ - Who is God over all, blessed forever – came. Amen.
9:6  Notwithstanding, it cannot be that the word of God should take no effect. For not all are Israel who are of Israel.
9:7  Nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham. But: “In Isaac shall your seed be called.”
9:8  That is, those who are the children of the flesh are not the children of God. But the children of the promise are counted as the seed.
9:9  For this is a word of promise: “At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son”;
9:10  and not only her, but Rebecca also, when she had conceived by one, even by our Father, Isaac.
9:11  For before the children were born - and when they had done neither good nor evil (so that the purpose of God might remain according to election; not by works, but by Him Who calls) -
9:12  it was said to her: “The Elder shall serve the younger.”
9:13  As it is written: “I have loved Jacob and have hated Esau.”
9:14  What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Absolutely not!
9:15  For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy and will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”
9:16  So then it is not in him who wills, nor in him who runs, but in God, Who shows mercy.
9:17  For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “For this same purpose I have raised you up, so that I might show My power in you; and that My Name might be declared throughout all the earth.”
9:18  Therefore, He has mercy on whom He will. And whom He will, He hardens.
9:19  You will then say to me: “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?”
9:20  But who are you, O man, to contradict God? Shall the thing formed say to Him Who formed it, “Why have you made me this way”?
9:21  Does not indeed the potter have authority over the clay to make, from the same lump, one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor?
9:22  What if God – though willing to show His wrath, and to make His power known - endured with much patience the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?
9:23  That in so doing, He might declare the riches of His glory upon the vessels of mercy, which He has prepared unto glory -
9:24  even we whom He has called - not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles.
9:25  As He also says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My people’ who were not my people; and her ‘Beloved’ who was not beloved.
9:26  “And it shall be in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people’. There they shall be called ‘The sons of the living God’.”
9:27  Also, Isaiah cries concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel were as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved.
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.”
9:29  And as Isaiah said before: “Except that the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been made as Sodom, and had been like Gomorrah.”
9:30  What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who did not follow righteousness, have attained righteousness, even the righteousness that is by faith;
9:31  but Israel, which followed the Law of righteousness, could not attain the Law of righteousness.
9:32  Why? Because they did not not seek it by faith, but by the works of the Law. For they have stumbled at the stumbling stone.
9:33  As it is written: “Behold, I lay a stumbling stone in Zion; an ensnaring rock. And everyone who believes in Him, shall not be ashamed.”