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9:1  I am telling the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears witness to me in the Holy Spirit—
9:2  that my grief is great and there is constant distress in my heart.
9:3  For I could wish myself to be accursed from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my fellow countrymen according to the flesh,
9:4  who are Israelites, to whom belong the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the temple service, and the promises,
9:5  to whom belong the patriarchs, and from whom is the Christ according to human descent, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.
9:6  But it is not as if the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,
9:7  nor are they all children because they are descendants of Abraham, but “In Isaac will your descendants be named.”
9:8  That is, it is not the children by human descent who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.
9:9  For the statement of the promise is this: “At this time I will return and Sarah will have a son.”
9:10  And not only this, but also when Rebecca conceived children by one man, Isaac our father—
9:11  for although they had not yet been born, or done anything good or evil, in order that the purpose of God according to election might remain,
9:12  not by works but by the one who calls—it was said to her, “The older will serve the younger,”
9:13  just as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
9:14  What then shall we say? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be!
9:15  For to Moses he says, “I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion.”
9:16  Consequently therefore, it does not depend on the one who wills or on the one who runs, but on God who shows mercy.
9:17  For the scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very reason I have raised you up, so that I may demonstrate my power in you, and so that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
9:18  Consequently therefore, he has mercy on whomever he wishes, and he hardens whomever he wishes.
9:19  Therefore you will say to me, “Why then does he still find fault? For who has resisted his will?
9:20  On the contrary, O man, who are you who answers back to God? Will what is molded say to the one who molded it, “Why did you make me like this”?
9:21  Or does the potter not have authority over the clay, to make from the same lump a vessel that is for honorable use and one that is for ordinary use?
9:22  And what if God, wanting to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?
9:23  And he did so in order that he could make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy that he prepared beforehand for glory,
9:24  us whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
9:25  As he also says in Hosea, “I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’ and those who were not loved, ‘Loved.’
9:26  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.’”
9:27  And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Even if the number of the sons of Israel is like the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved,
9:28  for the Lord will execute his sentence thoroughly and decisively upon the earth.”
9:29  And just as Isaiah foretold, “If the Lord of hosts had not left 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, attained righteousness—even the righteousness that is by faith.
9:31  But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, did not attain to the law.
9:32  Why that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if by works. They stumbled over the stone that causes people to stumble,
9:33  just as it is written, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble, and a rock that causes them to fall, and the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.”