Romans 9:1-11 ▼

1 I say ye trueth in Christ, I lye not, my conscience also bearyng me witnesse by the holy ghost,

2 That I haue great heauinesse, & continuall sorowe in my heart.

3 For I haue wisshed my selfe to be cursed from Christe, for my brethren, my kynsmen as pertaynyng to ye fleshe,

4 Which are the Israelites: To whom pertayneth the adoption, and the glory, & the couenauntes, and the lawe that was geuen, and the seruice of God, and the promises.

5 Of whom are the fathers, of whom as concernyng the fleshe, Christe came, which is God, in all thynges to be praysed for euer. Amen.

6 And it can not be, that the worde of God shoulde take none effect. For they are not all Israelites, which are of Israel:

7 Neither are they all chyldren that are the seede of Abraham: But in Isaac shall thy seede be called.

8 That is to say: They which are the chyldren of the fleshe, are not the chyldren of God: But they which be the childre of promise, are counted the seede.

9 For this is a worde of promise: About this tyme wyll I come, and Sara shall haue a sonne.

10 Not only this, but also Rebecca was with chylde by one euen by our father Isaac.

11 For yer the chyldren were borne, when they had neither done good neither bad, (that the purpose of God by election might stande: not by the reason of workes, but by the caller)