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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 WEB</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">WEB</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 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">World English Bible</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Paul's Concern for the Jews</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit, <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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.</p> <a name="6" id="6"></a><p class="hdg">God's Sovereign Choice<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../genesis/25.htm#19">Genesis 25:19-28</a>; <a href="../malachi/1.htm">Malachi 1:1-5</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel. <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 will your seed be called." <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son." <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger." <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be! <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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." <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.</p> <p class="hdg">The Calling of the Gentiles</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>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?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction, <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 on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>"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.'"</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>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; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>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."</p> <p class="hdg">Israel's Unbelief</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. 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