Read Bible Book Of Romans Chapter 9 In Online
1 - I Speak The Truth In Christ--i Am Not Lying, My Conscience Confirms It In The Holy Spirit--
2 - I Have Great Sorrow And Unceasing Anguish In My Heart.
3 - For I Could Wish That I Myself Were Cursed And Cut Off From Christ For The Sake Of My Brothers, Those Of My Own Race,
4 - The People Of Israel. Theirs Is The Adoption As Sons; Theirs The Divine Glory, The Covenants, The Receiving Of The Law, The Temple Worship And The Promises.
5 - Theirs Are The Patriarchs, And From Them Is Traced The Human Ancestry Of Christ, Who Is God Over All, Forever Praised! Amen.
6 - It Is Not As Though God's Word Had Failed. For Not All Who Are Descended From Israel Are Israel.
7 - Nor Because They Are His Descendants Are They All Abraham's Children. On The Contrary, "It Is Through Isaac That Your Offspring Will Be Reckoned."
8 - In Other Words, It Is Not The Natural Children Who Are God's Children, But It Is The Children Of The Promise Who Are Regarded As Abraham's Offspring.
9 - For This Was How The Promise Was Stated: "At The Appointed Time I Will Return, And Sarah Will Have A Son."
10 - Not Only That, But Rebekah's Children Had One And The Same Father, Our Father Isaac.
11 - Yet, Before The Twins Were Born Or Had Done Anything Good Or Bad--in Order That God's Purpose In Election Might Stand:
12 - Not By Works But By Him Who Calls--she Was Told, "The Older Will Serve The Younger."
13 - Just As It Is Written: "Jacob I Loved, But Esau I Hated."
14 - What Then Shall We Say? Is God Unjust? Not At All!
15 - For He Says To Moses, "I Will Have Mercy On Whom I Have Mercy, And I Will Have Compassion On Whom I Have Compassion."
16 - It Does Not, Therefore, Depend On Man's Desire Or Effort, But On God's Mercy.
17 - For The Scripture Says To Pharaoh: "I Raised You Up For This Very Purpose, That I Might Display My Power In You And That My Name Might Be Proclaimed In All The Earth."
18 - Therefore God Has Mercy On Whom He Wants To Have Mercy, And He Hardens Whom He Wants To Harden.
19 - One Of You Will Say To Me: "Then Why Does God Still Blame Us? For Who Resists His Will?"
20 - But Who Are You, O Man, To Talk Back To God? "Shall What Is Formed Say To Him Who Formed It, 'Why Did You Make Me Like This?' "
21 - Does Not The Potter Have The Right To Make Out Of The Same Lump Of Clay Some Pottery For Noble Purposes And Some For Common Use?
22 - What If God, Choosing To Show His Wrath And Make His Power Known, Bore With Great Patience The Objects Of His Wrath--prepared For Destruction?
23 - What If He Did This To Make The Riches Of His Glory Known To The Objects Of His Mercy, Whom He Prepared In Advance For Glory--
24 - Even Us, Whom He Also Called, Not Only From The Jews But Also From The Gentiles?
25 - As He Says In Hosea: "I Will Call Them 'My People' Who Are Not My People; And I Will Call Her 'My Loved One' Who Is Not My Loved One,"
26 - And, "It Will Happen That In The Very Place Where It Was Said To Them, 'You Are Not My People,' They Will Be Called 'Sons Of The Living God.' "
27 - Isaiah Cries Out Concerning Israel: "Though The Number Of The Israelites Be Like The Sand By The Sea, Only The Remnant Will Be Saved.
28 - For The Lord Will Carry Out His Sentence On Earth With Speed And Finality."
29 - It Is Just As Isaiah Said Previously: "Unless The Lord Almighty Had Left Us Descendants, We Would Have Become Like Sodom, We Would Have Been Like Gomorrah."
30 - What Then Shall We Say? That The Gentiles, Who Did Not Pursue Righteousness, Have Obtained It, A Righteousness That Is By Faith;
31 - But Israel, Who Pursued A Law Of Righteousness, Has Not Attained It.
32 - Why Not? Because They Pursued It Not By Faith But As If It Were By Works. They Stumbled Over The "Stumbling Stone."
33 - As It Is Written: "See, I Lay In Zion A Stone That Causes Men To Stumble And A Rock That Makes Them Fall, And The One Who Trusts In Him Will Never Be Put To Shame."
