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9:1  I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience testifies to me through the Holy Spirit—
9:2  that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
9:3  For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the benefit of my brothers and sisters, my own flesh and blood.
9:4  They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple service, and the promises.
9:5  The ancestors are theirs, and from them, by physical descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, praised forever. Amen.
9:6  Now it is not as though the word of God has failed, because not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
9:7  Neither is it the case that all of Abraham’s children are his descendants. On the contrary, your offspring will be traced through Isaac.
9:8  That is, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but the children of the promise are considered to be the offspring.
9:9  For this is the statement of the promise: At this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.
9:10  And not only that, but Rebekah conceived children through one man, our father Isaac.
9:11  For though her sons had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand—
9:12  not from works but from the one who calls—she was told, The older will serve the younger.
9:13  As it is written: I have loved Jacob, but I have hated Esau.
9:14  What should we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!
9:15  For he tells Moses, I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
9:16  So then, it does not depend on human will or effort but on God who shows mercy.
9:17  For the Scripture tells Pharaoh, I raised you up for this reason so that I may display my power in you and that my name may be proclaimed in the whole earth.
9:18  So then, he has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
9:19  You will say to me, therefore, “Why then does he still find fault? For who resists his will?”
9:20  On the contrary, who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
9:21  Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?
9:22  And what if God, wanting to display his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath prepared for destruction?
9:23  And what if he did this to make known the riches of his glory on objects of mercy that he prepared beforehand for glory—
9:24  on us, the ones he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
9:25  As it also says in Hosea, I will call Not My People, My People, and she who is Unloved, Beloved.
9:26  And it will be in the place where they were told, you are not my people, there they will be called sons of the living God.
9:27  But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, Though the number of Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved;
9:28  since the Lord will execute his sentence completely and decisively on the earth.
9:29  And just as Isaiah predicted: If the Lord of Armies had not left us offspring, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made like Gomorrah.
9:30  What should we say then? Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained righteousness—namely the righteousness that comes from faith.
9:31  But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not achieved the righteousness of the law.
9:32  Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.
9:33  As it is written, Look, I am putting a stone in Zion to stumble over and a rock to trip over, and the one who believes on him will not be put to shame.