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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For this is what the promise said: “About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son.” |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls— |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means! |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory— |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25As indeed he says in Hosea, “Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’” |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’” |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved, |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.” |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29And as Isaiah predicted, “If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring, we would have been like Sodom and become like Gomorrah.” |
30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith; |
31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law. |
32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, |
33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33as it is written, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” |
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