Romans 9
World English Bible (WEB) • 33 verses
1I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit
Related1 Timothy 2:7 · Romans 1:9 · Galatians 1:20 · 2 Corinthians 11:10 · Philippians 1:8 · 2 Corinthians 12:19
2that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
RelatedPhilippians 3:18 · Jeremiah 13:17 · Psalms 119:136 · Lamentations 3:51 · Romans 10:1 · Luke 19:41-44
3For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh
RelatedExodus 32:32 · Esther 8:6 · Romans 11:14 · Galatians 3:10 · 1 Corinthians 16:22 · Acts 7:23-26
4who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
5of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
6But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.
7Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”
8That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.
RelatedJohn 1:13 · Romans 4:11-16 · Galatians 3:26-29 · Romans 8:14 · Galatians 4:22-31 · 1 John 3:1-2
9For this is a word of promise: “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”
RelatedGenesis 18:10 · Genesis 18:14 · Genesis 17:21 · Genesis 21:2 · Hebrews 11:11-12 · Hebrews 11:17
10Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.
11For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
Related2 Timothy 1:9 · Ephesians 1:4-5 · 2 Peter 1:10 · Romans 8:28-30 · Ephesians 1:9-11 · Titus 3:5
12it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”
13Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
RelatedMalachi 1:2-3 · Deuteronomy 21:15 · Genesis 29:31 · Genesis 29:33 · Matthew 10:37 · Proverbs 13:24
14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!
Related2 Chronicles 19:7 · Psalms 145:17 · Deuteronomy 32:4 · Psalms 92:15 · Job 34:10-12 · Revelation 16:7
15For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
16So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
RelatedEphesians 2:8 · Matthew 11:25-26 · Philippians 2:13 · Ephesians 2:4-5 · 1 Peter 2:9-10 · Titus 3:3-5
17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
18So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
RelatedExodus 4:21 · Joshua 11:20 · Romans 9:15-16 · Romans 11:7-8 · 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 · Deuteronomy 2:30
19You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”
RelatedDaniel 4:35 · 2 Chronicles 20:6 · 1 Corinthians 15:35 · 1 Corinthians 15:12 · Psalms 76:10 · Job 23:13-14
20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
21Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
RelatedIsaiah 64:8 · Proverbs 16:4 · 2 Timothy 2:20-21 · Jeremiah 18:3-6 · Acts 9:15 · Romans 9:22-23
22What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
23and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory—
RelatedRomans 2:4 · 1 Peter 1:2-5 · Colossians 1:27 · Ephesians 2:10 · Romans 5:20-21 · Ephesians 3:16
24us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
RelatedColossians 3:11 · Romans 10:12 · Revelation 19:9 · Hebrews 3:1 · Acts 21:17-20 · Galatians 3:28
25As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”
26“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”
RelatedHosea 1:9-10 · 1 John 3:1-3 · Romans 8:16 · Galatians 3:26 · Isaiah 43:6 · 2 Corinthians 6:18
27Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;
28for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”
29As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”
30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
31but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
32Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
33even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”
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