ABP - Romans - 9

9:1  [2truth 1I speak] in Christ, I do not lie, (bearing witness with me is my conscience in [2spirit 1holy],)

9:2  that [2distress 3is with me 1great], and continual grief in my heart.

9:3  For I would make a vow, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ for my brethren, of my relatives according to flesh;

9:4  the ones who are Israelites, whom is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the legislation, and the service, and the promises,

9:5  whom are the fathers, and of whom the Christ came according to flesh, the one being over all -- God blessed into the eons. Amen.

9:6  [2not 3such as 1But] that [4has fallen 1the 2word 3of God]; for not all the ones of Israel are these Israel;

9:7  and not that [3are 4seed 5of Abraham 1all 2children]; but, In Isaac [2shall be called 3to you 1a seed].

9:8  That is to say, not the children of the flesh are these children of God; but the children of the promise are imputed for seed.

9:9  For of promise is this word, According to this time I will come, and [2will be 3to Sarah 1a son].

9:10  [2not 3only this 1And], but also Rebecca from out of one marriage-bed had Isaac our father

9:11  (for not yet being born, nor having done anything good or bad, that [3according to 4choice 2of God 1the intention] should abide, not from works, but of the one calling),

9:12  and it was said to her that, The greater shall serve the lesser.

9:13  As it has been written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I detested.

9:14  What then shall we say? There is no injustice with God? May it not be.

9:15  For to Moses he says, I will show mercy on whom ever I should show mercy, and I shall pity whom ever I should pity.

9:16  So then it is not of the one wanting, nor of the one running, but of the showing mercy of God.

9:17  [4says 1For 2the 3scripture] to Pharaoh that, For this same thing I awakened you, so that I should demonstrate in you my power, and so that I should declare my name in all the earth.

9:18  So then whom he wants, he shows mercy; but whom he wants, he hardens.

9:19  You will say then to me, Why yet does he complain? For [3his will 1who 2has opposed]?

9:20  Certainly, O man, [3you 1who 2are] the one answering to God? Shall [3say 1the 2thing shaped] to the one shaping, Why have you made me thus?

9:21  Or has not [3authority 1the 2potter] of the clay, from out of the same batch, to make the one indeed for [2of honor 1a vessel], and the other for dishonor?

9:22  And if God wanting to demonstrate the wrath, and to make known his might, he bore with much leniency vessels of wrath being readied for destruction;

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

9:24  whom also he called us not only from out of Jews, but also from out of the nations,

9:25  (as also in Hosea he says, I will call the one not my people, My people; and the one not being loved, One being loved;

9:26  and it will be in the place where it was said to them, [2not 3my people 1You are], there they shall be called Sons of the living God;

9:27  and Isaiah cries out over Israel, saying, Though [6should be 1the 2number 3of the 4sons 5of Israel] as the sand of the sea, the vestige shall be preserved,)

9:28  [3a reckoning 1for 2completing], and rendering it concise in righteousness; that [4reckoning 3a concise 2will make 1the Lord] upon the earth.

9:29  And as Isaiah described before, Unless the Lord of Hosts left behind for us a seed, [2as 3Sodom 1we would have become], and as Gomorrah we would be like.

9:30  What then shall we say? That nations, the ones not pursuing righteousness, overtook righteousness; but righteousness, the one of belief.

9:31  But Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, [2unto 3the law 4of righteousness 1attained not].

9:32  Why? Because it was not of belief, but as of works of law. For they stumbled against the stone of stumbling;

9:33  as it has been written, Behold, I put in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence; and every one trusting upon him shall not be disgraced.