Romans 9:1–23

^aI say the truth in Christ, I lie not, ^bmy conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, ^2cthat I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. ³For ^dI could wish that myself were ^eaccursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen ^faccording to the flesh: ^4gwho are Israelites; to whom pertaineth ^hthe adoption, and ⁱthe glory, and ^jthe covenants, and ^kthe giving of the law, and ^lthe service of God, and ^mthe promises; ⁵ⁿwhose are the fathers, and ^oof whom ^fas concerning the flesh Christ came, ^pwho is over all, ^qGod ^rblessed for ever. Amen. ^6sNot as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For ^tthey are not all Israel, which are of Israel: ^7uneither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, ^wIn Isaac shall thy seed be called. ⁸That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but ^xthe children of the promise are counted for the seed. ⁹For this is the word of promise, ^yAt this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son. ^10zAnd not only this; but ^awhen Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; ¹¹(for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that ^bthe purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of ^chim that calleth;) ¹²it was said unto her, ^dThe elder shall serve the younger. ¹³As it is written, ^eJacob have I loved, but Esau have I ^fhated.

¹⁴What shall we say then? ^gIs there unrighteousness with God? ^hGod forbid. ¹⁵For he saith to Moses, ⁱI will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. ¹⁶So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. ¹⁷For ^kthe scripture saith unto Pharaoh, ^lEven 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. ¹⁸Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. ¹⁹Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For ^mwho hath resisted his will? ²⁰ⁿNay but, ^oO man, who art thou that repliest against God? ^pShall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? ^21qHath not the potter power ^rover the clay, of the same lump to make ^sone vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? ²²What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, ^tendured with much ^ulong-suffering ^wthe vessels of wrath ^xfitted to destruction: ²³and ^ythat he might make known ^zthe riches of his glory on ^wthe vessels of mercy, which ^ahe had afore prepared unto glory,