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9:1  I am telling the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears witness with me · in 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 accursed, cut off from · Christ, for the sake of my brethren, · my kinsmen according to the flesh,
9:4  who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption, · the glory, · the covenants, · the giving of the law, · the temple worship, and the promises.
9:5  To them belong the patriarchs, and from them by human descent came the Christ, · who is God over all, blessed for all time. Amen.
9:6  But it is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are actually Israel;
9:7  neither are they all children of Abraham because they are his descendants; on the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your descendants will be named.”
9:8  This means it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.
9:9  For this is what the promise said: “About · this time next year I will return and Sarah will have · a son.”
9:10  Not only that, · but · when Rebecca had conceived twins by one man, our forefather Isaac ·—
9:11  for even before they were born or had done anything either good or bad so that · God’s purpose according to election · might stand,
9:12  not because of works, but because of his call—it was said to her, “The older will serve the younger.”
9:13  As it is written, · “Jacob I loved, · but Esau I hated.”
9:14  What then shall we say? Is there not injustice on God’s part? · By no means!
9:15  For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
9:16  So then, it does not depend on human desire or · exertion, but on God’s mercy.
9:17  For the scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might display my power in you, · and that my name might be proclaimed · in all the earth.”
9:18  So then, God has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.
9:19  So you will say to me, “Why then does he still find fault? For who can resist · his will?”
9:20  But who are you, a mere mortal, · to criticize · God? Certainly the thing that is molded may not say to the one who molded it, “Why have you made me like this?”
9:21  Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay some pottery for a special occasion and other for common use?
9:22  What if God, willing · to display his wrath and make known · his power, has endured with great patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?
9:23  And what if he did so in order to make known the riches of his glory to the objects of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory—
9:24  even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles.
9:25  As he also says in · Hosea, “Those who were not my people, I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved, I will call ‘beloved.’”
9:26  “And it will happen that in the very place where God said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”
9:27  Isaiah · cries out concerning · Israel, “Even if the number of the sons of Israel were as the sand of the sea, only a remnant will be saved;
9:28  for the Lord will carry out his sentence on the earth, thoroughly and without delay.”
9:29  And as Isaiah predicted, “If the Lord of hosts had not left to us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, and would have resembled Gomorrah.”
9:30  What then shall we say?—that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have obtained it, the righteousness · that is by faith;
9:31  but Israel, even though it pursued a law that would produce righteousness, did not attain it?
9:32  Why not? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone, ·
9:33  as it is written, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone that makes them stumble and a rock that trips them up; but the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.”