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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 Bishops' Bible</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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">Bishops'</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">Bishops' Bible of 1568</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 say ye trueth in Christ, I lye not, my conscience also bearyng me witnesse by the holy ghost, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>That I haue great heauinesse, & continuall sorowe in my heart. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For I haue wisshed my selfe to be cursed from Christe, for my brethren, my kynsmen as pertaynyng to ye fleshe, <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Which are the Israelites: To whom pertayneth the adoption, and the glory, & the couenauntes, and the lawe that was geuen, and the seruice of God, and the promises. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Of whom are the fathers, of whom as concernyng the fleshe, Christe <FI>came,<Fi> which is God, in all thynges to be praysed for euer. Amen.<p> <A name="7"></a><p class="hdg">God’s Sovereign Choice<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../genesis/25.htm#19">Genesis 25:19–28</a>; <a href ="../malachi/1.htm">Malachi 1:1–5</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And it can not be, that the worde of God shoulde take none effect. For they are not all Israelites, which are of Israel: <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Neither are they all chyldren that are the seede of Abraham: But in Isaac shall thy seede be called. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>That is to say: They which are the chyldren of the fleshe, are not the chyldren of God: But they which be the childre of promise, are counted the seede. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For this is a worde of promise: About this tyme wyll I come, and Sara shall haue a sonne. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Not only this, but also Rebecca was with chylde by one <FI>euen<Fi> by our father Isaac. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For yer the <FI>chyldren<Fi> were borne, when they had neither done good neither bad, (that the purpose of God by election might stande: not by the reason of workes, but by the caller) <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>It was sayde vnto her: The elder shall serue the younger. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>As it is written: Iacob haue I loued, but Esau haue I hated.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>What shall we say then? Is there any vnrighteousnes with God? God forbid. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For he sayth to Moyses: I wyll shewe mercy to whom I shewe mercy: And wyll haue compassion, on whom I haue 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 the wyller, nor of the runner: but of the mercy of God. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For the scripture sayth vnto Pharao: Euen for this same purpose haue I stirred thee vp, to shewe my power in thee, & that my name myght be declared throughout all the worlde. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So hath he mercy on whom he wyll, and whom he wyll, he hardeneth.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Thou wylt say then vnto me: Why then blameth he <FI>vs<Fi> yet? For who hath ben able to resist his wyll? <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But O man, what art thou which disputest with God? Shall the worke say to the workeman, why hast thou made me on this fashion? <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Hath not the potter power ouer the clay, euen of the same lumpe to make one vessel vnto honour, and another vnto dishonour? <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>If then, God wyllyng to shewe his wrath, and to make his power knowe, suffred with long patience, the vessels of wrath, ordayned to destruction, <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>To declare the riches of his glory, on the vessels of mercy, which he had prepared vnto glory: <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Whom also he called, not of ye Iewes only, but also of the Gentiles.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>As he sayth also in Osee: I wyll call them my people, which were not my people: and her beloued, which was not beloued.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And it shall come to passe, that in the place where it was sayde vnto them: Ye are not my people, there shall they be called ye chyldren of the lyuyng God.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Esaias cryeth concerning Israel: Though the number of the children of Israel, be as the sande of the sea, yet <FI>but<Fi> a remnaunt shalbe saued. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For he finisheth the worde, and maketh it short in ryghteousnesse: For a short worde wyll the Lorde make on earth.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And as Esaias sayde before: Except the Lorde of Sabboth had lefte vs seede, we had ben made as Sodoma, and had ben lykened to Gomorrha.<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 shall we say then? that the gentiles which folowed not ryghteousnes, haue obtayned righteousnesse: euen the ryghteousnesse which cometh of fayth. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>But Israel, which folowed the lawe of ryghteousnesse, hath not attayned to the lawe of ryghteousnesse. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Wherfore? Because <FI>they sought it<Fi> not by fayth: but <FI>as it were<Fi> by the workes of the lawe. For they haue stumbled at the stumblyng stone,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>As it is written: Beholde, I put in Sion a stumblyng stone, and a rocke of offence: And whosoeuer beleueth on hym, shall not be confounded.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Bishops' Bible of 1568<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><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>