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Library > Bible versions > NIV > Romans > 9 > Romans   9 : 1 I speak the truth in Christ--I am not lying, my conscience confirms it in the Holy Spirit-- 9 : 2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 9 : 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, 9 : 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. 9 : 5 Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen. 9 : 6 It is not as though God`s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. 9 : 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." 9 : 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 : 9 For this was how the promise was stated: "At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son." 9 : 10 Not only that, but Rebekah`s children had one and the same father, our father Isaac. 9 : 11 Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad--in order that God`s purpose in election might stand: 9 : 12 not by works but by him who calls--she was told, "The older will serve the younger." 9 : 13 Just as it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated." 9 : 14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! 9 : 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." 9 : 16 It does not, therefore, depend on man`s desire or effort, but on God`s mercy. 9 : 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." 9 : 18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden. 9 : 19 One of you will say to me: "Then why does God still blame us? For who resists his will?" 9 : 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?` " 9 : 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? 9 : 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? 9 : 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-- 9 : 24 even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? 9 : 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," 9 : 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.` " 9 : 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. 9 : 28 For the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with speed and finality." 9 : 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." 9 : 30 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; 9 : 31 but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. 9 : 32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the "stumbling stone." 9 : 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."