Romans 9

About Romans Romans is Paul's fullest explanation of the gospel: sin, grace, faith, and life in the Spirit.

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,SelectedRomans 9:1Ask

That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.SelectedRomans 9:2Ask

For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:SelectedRomans 9:3Ask

Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;SelectedRomans 9:4Ask

Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.SelectedRomans 9:5Ask

Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:SelectedRomans 9:6Ask

Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.SelectedRomans 9:7Ask

That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.SelectedRomans 9:8Ask

For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.SelectedRomans 9:9Ask

And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;SelectedRomans 9:10Ask

(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)SelectedRomans 9:11Ask

It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.SelectedRomans 9:12Ask

As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.SelectedRomans 9:13Ask

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.SelectedRomans 9:14Ask

For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.SelectedRomans 9:15Ask

So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.SelectedRomans 9:16Ask

For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.SelectedRomans 9:17Ask

Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.SelectedRomans 9:18Ask

Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?SelectedRomans 9:19Ask

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?SelectedRomans 9:20Ask

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?SelectedRomans 9:21Ask

What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:SelectedRomans 9:22Ask

And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,SelectedRomans 9:23Ask

Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?SelectedRomans 9:24Ask

As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.SelectedRomans 9:25Ask

And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.SelectedRomans 9:26Ask

Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:SelectedRomans 9:27Ask

For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.SelectedRomans 9:28Ask

And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.SelectedRomans 9:29Ask

What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.SelectedRomans 9:30Ask

But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.SelectedRomans 9:31Ask

Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;SelectedRomans 9:32Ask

As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.SelectedRomans 9:33Ask

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