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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Romans 9 Worrell New Testament</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/romans/9.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/romans/9-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">WOR</a> > Romans 9</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../romans/8.htm" title="Romans 8">◄</a> Romans 9 <a href="../romans/10.htm" title="Romans 10">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Worrell New Testament</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/romans/9-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Paul’s Concern for the Jews<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I am speaking a truth in Christ?I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in <i>the</i> Holy Spirit? <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>(for I was wishing myself <i>to be</i> a curse from Christ) for my brethren, my kinsmen according to flesh; <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>who, indeed, are Israelites, whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises; <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>whose are the fathers; and of whom, according to flesh, is the Christ, Who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.<p> <A name="7"></a><p class="hdg">God’s Sovereign Choice<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But <i>it is</i> not as though the word of God has failed: for they are not all Israel, who are of Israel; <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children; but, "In Isaac shall your seed be called." <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For the word of the promise is this: "At this season I will come, and Sarah shall have a son." <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And not only so; but Rebecca also having conceived by one, <i>even</i> by our father Isaac <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>(for, <i>the children</i> being not yet born, nor having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him Who calleth), <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>it was said to her, "The elder shall serve the younger." <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Even as it has been written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>What, then, shall we say? <i>Is there</i> unrighteousness with God? It could not be! <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For He saith to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomsoever I have mercy; and I will have compassion on whomsoever I have compassion." <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So, then, it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God Who hath mercy. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose did I raise you up, that I might show forth My power in you, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth." <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So, then, He hath mercy on whom He willeth, and whom He willeth He hardeneth.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>You will say to me, then, "Why doth He still find fault? for who has withstood His will?" <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Nay but, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him Who formed it, "Why didst Thou make me thus?" <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Or has not the potter a right over the clay, out of the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor? <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And <i>what</i> if God, willing to show forth His wrath and to make known His power, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction; <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>and that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, <i>even</i> us, <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>whom He also called, not from Jews only, but also from gentiles?<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>As He saith in Hosea, "I will call that My people, which was not My people; and her, 'Beloved,' who was not beloved.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And it shall be <i>that</i> in the place where it was said, 'Ye are not My people,' there shall they be called sons of the living God."<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, <i>it is</i> the remnant <i>that</i> shall be saved;" <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>for the Lord will do a work on the earth, finishing it, and cutting it short.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And, as Isaiah has said before: "Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we would have become as Sodom, and been made like to Gomorrah."<p> <A name="31"></a><p class="hdg">Israel’s Unbelief<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>What, then, shall we say? that gentiles who were not following after righteous obtained righteousness, but a righteousness which <i>is</i> of faith; <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not attain to <i>such</i> a law. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Wherefore? because they <i>sought it</i> not by faith, but as <i>it were</i> by works. They stumbled at the Stone of stumbling;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>as it has been written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a Stone of stumbling, and a Rock of offense; and he that believes on Him shall not be put to shame."<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Worrell New Testament (1904)<br><br>Digital Text Courtesy <a href="https://theword.net">TheWord.net Bible Software</a>.<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../romans/8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Romans 8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Romans 8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../romans/10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Romans 10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Romans 10" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>