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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1I am telling the truth because I belong to the Messiah —I am not lying, and my conscience confirms it by means of the Holy Spirit. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3for I could wish that I myself were condemned and cut off from the Messiah for the sake of my brothers, my own people, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4who are Israelis. 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 the Israelis belong the patriarchs, and from them, the Messiah descended, who is God over all, the one who is forever blessed. Amen. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Now it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all Israelis truly belong to Israel, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7and not all of Abraham's descendants are his true descendants. On the contrary, "It is through Isaac that descendants will be named for you." |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8That is, it is not merely the children born through natural descent who were regarded as God's children, but it is the children born through the promise who were regarded as descendants. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For this is the language of the promise: "At this time I will return, and Sarah will have a son." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Not only that, but Rebecca became pregnant by our ancestor Isaac. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Yet before their children had been born or had done anything good or bad (so that God's plan of election might continue to operate |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12according to his calling and not by actions), Rebecca was told, "The older child will serve the younger one." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13So it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated." |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14What can we say, then? God is not unrighteous, is he? Of course not! |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For he says to Moses, "I will be merciful to the person I want to be merciful to, and I will be kind to the person I want to be kind to." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Therefore, God's choice does not depend on a person's will or effort, but on God himself, who shows mercy. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For the Scripture says about Pharaoh, "I have raised you up for this very purpose, to demonstrate my power through you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Therefore, God has mercy on whomever he chooses, and he hardens the heart of whomever he chooses. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19You may ask me, "Then why does God still find fault with anybody? For who can resist his will?" |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20On the contrary, who are you—mere man that you are—to talk back to God? Can an object that was molded say to the one who molded it, "Why did you make me like this?" |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21A potter has the right to do what he wants to with his clay, doesn't he? He can make something for a special occasion or something for ordinary use from the same lump of clay. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Now if God wants to demonstrate his wrath and reveal his power, can't he be extremely patient with the objects of his wrath that are made for destruction? |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Can't he also reveal his glorious riches to the objects of his mercy that he has prepared ahead of time for glory— |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24including us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but from the gentiles as well? |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25As the Scripture says in Hosea, "Those who are not my people I will call my people, and the one who was not loved I will call my loved one. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26In the very place where it was told them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called children of the living God." |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Isaiah also calls out concerning Israel, "Although the descendants of Israel are as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore, only a few will be saved. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28For the Lord will carry out his plan decisively, bringing it to completion on the earth." |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29It is just as Isaiah predicted: "If the Lord of the Heavenly Armies had not left us some descendants, we would have become like Sodom and would have been compared to Gomorrah." |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30What can we say, then? Gentiles, who were not pursuing righteousness, have attained righteousness, a righteousness that comes through faith. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31But Israel, who pursued righteousness based on the Law, did not achieve the Law. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Why not? Because they did not pursue it on the basis of faith, but as if it were based on achievements. They stumbled over the stone that causes people to stumble. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33As it is written, "Look! I am placing a stone in Zion over which people will stumble— a large rock that will make them fall— and the one who believes in him will never be ashamed." |
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