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Amen. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But <i>it is</i> not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are <i>descended</i> from Israel; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s seed, but: “<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>THROUGH ISAAC YOUR SEED WILL BE NAMED.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are considered as 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 I WILL 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 there was Rebekah also, when she had conceived <i>twins</i> by one man, our father Isaac; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>for though <i>the twins</i> were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that the purpose of God according to <i>His</i> choice would <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>stand, not <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>because of works but <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>because of Him who calls, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>it was said to her, “THE OLDER SHALL SERVE THE YOUNGER.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Just as it is written, “JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>What shall we say then? Is there any unrighteousness with God? May it never be! <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For He says 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 <i>does</i> not <i>depend</i> on the one who wills or the one who runs, but on 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 RAISED YOU UP, IN ORDER TO DEMONSTRATE MY POWER IN YOU, AND IN ORDER THAT MY NAME MIGHT BE PROCLAIMED <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE 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 class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? WILL THE THING MOLDED SAY TO THE MOLDER, “WHY DID YOU MAKE ME LIKE THIS”? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Or does not the potter have authority over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>for honorable use and another <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>for dishonorable use? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>what if God, wanting to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath having been prepared for destruction, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>and in order that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory— <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><i>even</i> us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>As He says also in Hosea, <p class="indent2">“I WILL CALL THOSE WHO WERE NOT MY PEOPLE, ‘MY PEOPLE,’ <p class="indent2">AND HER WHO WAS NOT BELOVED, ‘BELOVED.’” <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>“AND IT SHALL BE THAT IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID TO THEM, ‘YOU ARE NOT MY PEOPLE,’ <p class="indent2">THERE THEY SHALL BE CALLED SONS OF THE LIVING GOD.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “THOUGH THE NUMBER OF THE SONS OF ISRAEL BE LIKE THE SAND OF THE SEA, IT IS THE REMNANT THAT WILL BE SAVED; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>FOR THE LORD WILL EXECUTE HIS WORD ON THE LAND, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>THOROUGHLY AND <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>QUICKLY.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And just as Isaiah foretold, <p class="indent2">“UNLESS THE LORD OF <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>SABAOTH HAD LEFT TO US A SEED, <p class="indent2">WE WOULD HAVE BECOME LIKE SODOM, AND WOULD HAVE <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>RESEMBLED GOMORRAH.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, laid hold of righteousness, even the righteousness which is <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>by faith; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not attain <i>that</i> law. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Why? Because <i>they did</i> not <i>pursue it</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>by faith, but as though <i>it were</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>just as it is written, <p class="indent2">“BEHOLD, I AM LAYING IN ZION A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE, <p class="indent2">AND THE ONE WHO BELIEVES UPON HIM WILL NOT BE PUT TO SHAME.”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>pray</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Messiah<br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Lit <i>to the ages</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Lit <i>in</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Lit <i>remain</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Lit <i>from</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Lit <i>from</i><br><span class="fnverse">17</span> Lit <i>in</i><br><span class="fnverse">21</span> Lit <i>for honor</i><br><span class="fnverse">21</span> Lit <i>for dishonor</i><br><span class="fnverse">22</span> Lit <i>But</i><br><span class="fnverse">28</span> Lit <i>finishing it</i><br><span class="fnverse">28</span> Lit <i>cutting it short</i><br><span class="fnverse">29</span> Hosts<br><span class="fnverse">29</span> Lit <i>been made like</i><br><span class="fnverse">30</span> Lit <i>out of</i><br><span class="fnverse">32</span> Lit <i>out of</i><br><span class="fnverse">32</span> Lit <i>out of</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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