Romans 9
1 I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit
I speak truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, that
2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
I have great grief and unceasing anguish in my heart.
3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh
For I could wish to be myself accursed and cast out from Christ in behalf of my brethren, my kinsmen as to the flesh;
4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
who are Israelites; whom God adopted as sons, whose was the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the service of the sanctuary, and the promises;
5 of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen. (aiōn g165)
whose are the fathers, and from whom, as to the flesh, was the Christ. He who is over all, God, be blessed for ever! Amen. (aiōn g165)
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.
Not as though the word of God hath failed; for not all they that are of Israel are Israel;
7 Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”
nor because they are descendants of Abraham are they all children; but, “Thy offspring shall be reckoned from Isaac.”
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 heirs.
That is, not the children by natural descent are children of God, but the children to whom the promise is made are accounted as the offspring.
9 For this is a word of promise: “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”
For the word of promise is this: “At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.”
10 Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.
And not only so, but also when Rebecca had conceived by one man, our father Isaac,
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,
before the children were born, or had done any thing good or evil, to the end that God's purpose according to election might stand, not depending on works, but on the will of him that calleth,
12 it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”
it was said to her, “The elder shall serve the younger:”
13 Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!
What then shall we say? Is there injustice with God? Far be it!
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.”
For he saith to Moses, “On whom I have mercy, on him will I have mercy; and on whom I have compassion, on him will I have compassion.”
16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
So then it dependeth not on him that willeth, nor on him that runneth, but on God who showeth mercy.
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.”
For the Scripture saith to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show forth my power in thee, and that my name might be made known in all the earth.”
18 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and hardeneth whom he will.
19 You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”
Hence thou wilt say to me, Why then doth he still find fault? for who resisteth his will?
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?”
Nay but, O man, who art thou that makest answer to God? Shall the thing that is wrought say to the workman, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honour, and another for dishonour?
Hath not the potter a right out of the same lump of clay to make one vessel for an honorable use, and another for a dishonorable?
22 What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
What if God endured with much patience vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, purposing to manifest his wrath and to make known his power;
23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory—
purposing also to make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,
24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
whom he also called, even us, not only from among the Jews, but also from among the gentiles?
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.”
as he also saith in Hosea, “I will call that my people, which was not my people; and her beloved, that was not beloved.
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.’”
And it shall be, that in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called sons of the living God.”
27 Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;
But Isaiah crieth out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
28 for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”
For he is accomplishing his word and speedily fulfilling it in righteousness; for a speedily fulfilled word will the Lord execute upon the earth.”
29 As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”
And as Isaiah hath said before, “Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we should have become as Sodom, and been made like Gomorrah.”
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
What then shall we say? That the gentiles, who did not strive after righteousness, obtained righteousness, but a righteousness which is of faith;
31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
while Israel, which strove after a law of righteousness, did not attain to a law of righteousness.
32 Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
Why? Because they did not strive for it by faith, but as being by works. For they stumbled against the stone of stumbling;
33 even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offence; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”
as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence; and he that believeth in him shall not be put to shame.”
