| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1I speak the truth in Christ--I am not lying; my conscience is testifying to me with the Holy Spirit-- |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2that I have intense sorrow and continual anguish in my heart. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For I could almost wish to be cursed and cut off from the Messiah for the benefit of my brothers, my own flesh and blood. |
| 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 temple service, and the promises. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The ancestors are theirs, and from them, by physical descent, came the Messiah, who is God over all, praised 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 are Israel. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Neither are they all children because they are Abraham's descendants. On the contrary, your offspring will be traced through Isaac. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8That 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For this is the statement of the promise: At this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10And not only that, but also Rebekah received a promise when she became pregnant by one man, our ancestor Isaac. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11For though her sons had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God's purpose according to election might stand-- |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12not from works but from the One who calls--she was told: The older will serve the younger. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13As it is written: I have loved Jacob, but I have hated Esau. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14What should we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not! |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For He tells Moses: I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16So then it does not depend on human will or effort but on God who shows mercy. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For 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 all the earth. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18So then, He shows mercy to those He wants to, and He hardens those He wants to harden. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19You will say to me, therefore, "Why then does He still find fault? For who can resist His will?" |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?" |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor? |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath ready for destruction? |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23And what if He did this to make known the riches of His glory on objects of mercy that He prepared beforehand for glory-- |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24on us, the ones He also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25As He also says in Hosea: I will call Not My People, My People, and she who is Unloved, Beloved. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26And 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. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: Though the number of Israel's sons is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved; |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28for the Lord will execute His sentence completely and decisively on the earth. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29And just as Isaiah predicted: If the Lord of Hosts had not left us offspring, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made like Gomorrah. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30What should we say then? Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained righteousness--namely the righteousness that comes from faith. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31But Israel, pursuing the law for righteousness, has not achieved the righteousness of the law. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33As it is written: Look! I am putting a stone in Zion to stumble over and a rock to trip over, yet the one who believes on Him will not be put to shame. |
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