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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 WBT</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="../">WBT</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">Webster Bible Translation</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 say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me testimony in the Holy Spirit, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Who are Israelites; to whom pertain the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Whose are the fathers, and from whom according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. 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>Not as though the word of God hath taken no effect. For they are not all Israel, who are descendants from Israel? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Neither because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>That is, They who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth) <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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have 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? By no means. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So then, it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For the scripture saith to Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.</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>Thou wilt say then to me, Why doth he yet find fault? for who hath resisted his will? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>No, but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel to honor, and another to 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 long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to 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 the vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Even us whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>As he saith also in Hosea, I will call them My people, who 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>And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called, The children of the living God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Isaiah also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall 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 a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And as Isaiah said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and 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 followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith: <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>But Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone, and rock of offense: and whoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Webster Bible Translation<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></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="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/romans/9-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>