Romans 9

9^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 ^ulongsuffering ^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, ²⁴Even us, whom ^bhe hath called, ^cnot of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? ²⁵As he saith also in Osee, ^dI will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. ^26eAnd 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 ^fthe living God. ²⁷Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, ^gThough the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, ^ha remnant shall be saved: ²⁸For he will finish ^||the work, and cut it short in righteousness: ⁱbecause a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. ²⁹And as Esaias said before, ^kExcept the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, ^lwe had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha. ³⁰What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, ^mwhich ⁿfollowed not after righteousness, have ⁿattained to righteousness, ^oeven the righteousness which is of faith. ³¹But Israel, ^pwhich followed after the law of righteousness, ^qhath not ^rattained to the law of righteousness. ³²Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For ^sthey stumbled at that ^ustumblingstone; ³³As it is written, ^tBehold, I lay in Sion a ^ustumblingstone and rock of ^woffence: and ^txwhosoever believeth on him shall not be ^||ashamed.