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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 YLT</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="../">YLT</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">Young's Literal 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>Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart — <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ — for my brethren, my kindred, 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, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>whose [are] the fathers, and of whom [is] the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. 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>And it is not possible that the word of God hath failed; for not all who [are] of Israel are these Israel; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children, but — ‘in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>that is, the children of the flesh — these [are] not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>for the word of promise [is] this; ‘According to this time I will come, and there shall be to Sarah a son.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And not only [so], but also Rebecca, having conceived by one — Isaac our father — <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>(for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her — <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>‘The greater shall serve the less;’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>according as it hath been written, ‘Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness [is] with God? let it not be! <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>for to Moses He saith, ‘I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, 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 — not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness: <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>for the Writing saith to Pharaoh — ‘For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden.</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 yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form [it], Why me didst thou make thus? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>hath not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make the one vessel to honour, and the one to dishonour? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted 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 kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call — us — <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>not only out of Jews, but also out of nations,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>as also in Hosea He saith, ‘I will call what [is] not My people — My people; and her not beloved — Beloved,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>and it shall be — in the place where it was said to them, Ye [are] not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Isaiah doth cry concerning Israel, ‘If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the Lord do upon the land.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>and according as Isaiah saith before, ‘Except the Lord of Sabaoth did leave to us a seed, as Sodom we had become, and as Gomorrah we had been made like.’</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, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that [is] of faith, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, at a law of righteousness did not arrive; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>wherefore? because — not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>according as it hath been written, ‘Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.’</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Young's Literal 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="../sidemenu.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <br /><br /></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><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhpar.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>