NHEB - Romans - 9

9:1  I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,

9:2  that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

9:3  For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

9:4  who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

9:5  of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

9:6  But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.

9:7  Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."

9:8  That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

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

9:10  Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.

9:11  For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

9:12  it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."

9:13  Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

9:14  What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

9:15  For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."

9:16  So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

9:17  For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."

9:18  So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

9:19  You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?"

9:20  But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

9:21  Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

9:22  What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,

9:23  and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

9:24  us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

9:25  As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."

9:26  "It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"

9:27  Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, "If the number of the sons of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;

9:28  for the Lord will fulfill his word completely and without delay upon the earth."

9:29  As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah."

9:30  What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who did not follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

9:31  but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.

9:32  Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

9:33  even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock that will make them fall; and no one who believes in him will be put to shame."