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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Romans 9</title><link rel="canonical" href="//bibleapps.com/romans/9.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/1500-3ch.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 850px), only screen and (max-device-width: 850px)" href="/850-ch.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/500s.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h450.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><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="40" scrolling="no" src="/mm/romans/9-1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div id="fx3"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx4"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="51" scrolling="no" src="/homescreen.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="79" scrolling="no" src="//mbible.com/cm/romans/9-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//bibleapps.com">Bible</a> > <a href="//bibleapps.com/romans/">Romans</a> > Chapter 9</div><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"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">American Standard Version</div><font color="#001320"><b><i>Paul's Concern for the Jews</i></b></font><span class="brk"><br><br></span><a href="/romans/9-1.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>1</b></span>I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,</a> <a href="/romans/9-2.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>2</b></span>that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.</a> <a href="/romans/9-3.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>3</b></span>For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren's sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:</a> <a href="/romans/9-4.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>4</b></span>who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God , and the promises;</a> <a href="/romans/9-5.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>5</b></span>whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.</a> <span class="brk"><br><br></span><font color="#001320"><b><i>God's Sovereign Choice</i></b></font><span class="brk"><br><br></span><a href="/romans/9-6.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>6</b></span>But it is not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:</a> <a href="/romans/9-7.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>7</b></span>neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.</a> <a href="/romans/9-8.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>8</b></span>That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.</a> <a href="/romans/9-9.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>9</b></span>For this is a word of promise, According to this season will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.</a> <a href="/romans/9-10.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>10</b></span>And not only so; but Rebecca also having conceived by one, even by our father Isaac--</a> <a href="/romans/9-11.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>11</b></span>for the children 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 that calleth,</a> <a href="/romans/9-12.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>12</b></span>it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.</a> <a href="/romans/9-13.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>13</b></span>Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.</a> <span class="brk"><br><br></span><a href="/romans/9-14.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>14</b></span>What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.</a> <a href="/romans/9-15.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>15</b></span>For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.</a> <a href="/romans/9-16.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>16</b></span>So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy.</a> <a href="/romans/9-17.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>17</b></span>For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, For this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show in thee my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth.</a> <a href="/romans/9-18.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>18</b></span>So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will be hardeneth.</a> <span class="brk"><br><br></span><font color="#001320"><b><i>The Calling of the Gentiles</i></b></font><span class="brk"><br><br></span><a href="/romans/9-19.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>19</b></span>Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he still find fault? For who withstandeth his will?</a> <a href="/romans/9-20.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>20</b></span>Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?</a> <a href="/romans/9-21.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>21</b></span>Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?</a> <a href="/romans/9-22.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>22</b></span>What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction:</a> <a href="/romans/9-23.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>23</b></span>and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory,</a> <a href="/romans/9-24.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>24</b></span>even us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?</a> <span class="brk"><br><br></span><a href="/romans/9-25.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>25</b></span>As he saith also in Hosea, I will call that my people, which was not my people; And her beloved, that was not beloved.</a> <span class="brk"><br><br></span><a href="/romans/9-26.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>26</b></span>And it shall be, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, There shall they be called sons of the living God.</a> <span class="brk"><br><br></span><a href="/romans/9-27.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>27</b></span>And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved:</a> <a href="/romans/9-28.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>28</b></span>for the Lord will execute his word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.</a> <span class="brk"><br><br></span><a href="/romans/9-29.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>29</b></span>And, as Isaiah hath said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We had become as Sodom, and had been made like unto Gomorrah.</a> <span class="brk"><br><br></span><font color="#001320"><b><i>Israel's Unbelief </i></b></font><span class="brk"><br><br></span><a href="/romans/9-30.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>30</b></span>What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:</a> <a href="/romans/9-31.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>31</b></span>but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.</a> <a href="/romans/9-32.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>32</b></span>Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;</a> <span class="brk"><br><br></span><a href="/romans/9-33.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>33</b></span>even as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence: And he that believeth on him shall not be put to shame.</a> <span class="brk"><br><br></span><span class="brk"><br><br></span><a href="//intbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy INT Bible<br />© 2012, Used by Permission</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Outline</div><span class="reftext2">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/romans/9-1.htm">Paul is sorry for the Jews.</a></span><br><span class="reftext2">7. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/romans/9-7.htm">All of Abraham not of the promise.</a></span><br><span class="reftext2">18. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/romans/9-18.htm">God's sovereignty.</a></span><br><span class="reftext2">25. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/romans/9-25.htm">The calling of the Gentiles and rejecting of the Jews, foretold.</a></span><br><span class="reftext2">32. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/romans/9-32.htm">The cause of their stumbling.</a></span><br><div class="vheading2">Chapters</div><a href="/romans/1.htm">Romans 1: Greetings to the Saints in Rome</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/romans/2.htm">Romans 2: God's Righteous Judgment </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/romans/3.htm">Romans 3: God Remains Faithful </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/romans/4.htm">Romans 4: Abraham's Justification by Faith</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/romans/5.htm">Romans 5: Faith Brings Peace and Joy </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/romans/6.htm">Romans 6: Dead to Sin, Alive to God</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/romans/7.htm">Romans 7: Release From the Law </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/romans/8.htm">Romans 8: No Condemnation in Christ Jesus</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/romans/9.htm">Romans 9: Paul's Concern for the Jews</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/romans/10.htm">Romans 10: The Word Brings Salvation</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/romans/11.htm">Romans 11: A Remnant of Israel</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/romans/12.htm">Romans 12: Offer Yourselve as Living Sacrifices</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/romans/13.htm">Romans 13: Submission to Authorities </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/romans/14.htm">Romans 14: Do Not Judge Your Brother</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/romans/15.htm">Romans 15: Accept One Another</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/romans/16.htm">Romans 16: Personal Greetings and Love </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span></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></td></tr></table><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><br /><a href="//bibleapps.com">Bible Apps.com</a><br /><br /><iframe width="100%" height="1200" scrolling="no" src="/botmenutsk.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></body></html>