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9:1  I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying— my conscience bearing-witness-with me in the Holy Spirit—
9:2  that there is great grief in me and unceasing pain in my heart.
9:3  For I would pray that I myself might be accursed from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh—
9:4  who are Israelites, of whom is the adoption and the glory and the covenants and the Law-giving and the [temple] service and the promises,
9:5  of whom are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according-to the flesh, the One being over all, God, blessed forever, amen.
9:6  But it is not such as that the word of God has failed— for not all these ones from Israel are Israel.
9:7  Nor are they all children because they are seed of Abraham, but “In Isaac a seed will be called for you” [Gen 21:12].
9:8  That is, these children of the flesh are not children of God, but the children of  the promise are counted for seed.
9:9  For the word of promise is this: “I will come at this time, and there will be a son to Sarah” [Gen 18:10].
9:10  And not only this, but there is also Rebekah having bed from one man, Isaac our father.
9:11  For the twins having not yet been born nor having done anything good or bad— in order that the purpose of God according to His choosing might continue,
9:12  not of works but of the One calling— it was said to her [in Gen 25:23] that “the older will serve the younger”.
9:13  Just as it has been written [in Mal 1:2-3]: “I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau”.
9:14  Therefore what shall we say? There is not unrighteousness with God, is there? May it never be!
9:15  For He says to Moses [in Ex 33:19], “I will have-mercy-on whomever I have-mercy, and I will have-compassion-on whomever I have compassion”.
9:16  So then, mercy is not of the one wanting, nor of the one running, but of the One having-mercy— God.
9:17  For the Scripture says to Pharaoh [in Ex 9:16] that “I raised you up for this very purpose: so that I might demonstrate My power in you, and so that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth”.
9:18  So then, He has-mercy-on whom He wants, and He hardens whom He wants.
9:19  Therefore you will say to me, “Why then does He still find-fault? For who has resisted His will?”
9:20  O human, on the contrary, who are you, the one answering-back to God? The thing formed will not say to the one having formed it, “Why did you make me like-this?”, will it?
9:21  Or does not the potter have authority over the clay to make from the same lump one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
9:22  But what if God, wanting to demonstrate His wrath and to make-known His power, bore with much patience vessels of wrath having been prepared for destruction,
9:23  and did so in order that He might make-known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy which He prepared-beforehand for glory—
9:24  even us whom He called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?
9:25  As He says also in Hosea: “I will call ‘Not My people’, ‘My people’; and ‘Not having been loved’, ‘Having been loved’” [Hos 2:23].
9:26  “And it shall 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” [Hos 1:10].
9:27  But Isaiah cries-out concerning Israel: “If the number of the sons of Israel should be like the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved.
9:28  For the Lord will accomplish His word upon the earth, completing and cutting-short” [in Isa 10:22-23].
9:29  And just as Isaiah said-before [in Isa 1:9]: “Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left-behind a seed for us, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been likened as Gomorrah”.
9:30  Therefore, what shall we say? That Gentiles, the ones not pursuing righteousness, took-hold-of  righteousness— but a righteousness by faith.
9:31  But Israel, pursuing the Law of righteousness, did not attain to that Law.
9:32  For what reason? Because they pursued it not by faith, but as-if it was by works. They stumbled on the Stone of stumbling,
9:33  just as it has been written [in Isa 28:16]: “Behold— I am laying in Zion a Stone of stumbling and a Rock of falling. And the one putting-faith upon Him will not be put-to-shame”.