Romans 9 — DRA
9Verse 1I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost:Verse 2That I have great sadness, and continual sorrow in my heart.Verse 3For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ, for my brethren, who are my kinsmen according to the flesh,Verse 4Who are Israelites, to whom belongeth the adoption as of children, and the glory, and the testament, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises:Verse 5Whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all things, God blessed for ever. Amen.Verse 6Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For all are not Israelites that are of Israel:Verse 7Neither are all they that are the seed of Abraham, children; but in Isaac shall thy seed be called:Verse 8That is to say, not they that are the children of the flesh, are the children of God; buy they, that are the children of the promise, are accounted for the seed.Verse 9For this is the word of promise: According to this time will I come; and Sara shall have a son.Verse 10And not only she. But when Rebecca also had conceived at once, of Isaac our father.Verse 11For when the children were not yet born, nor had done any good or evil (that the purpose of God, according to election, might stand,)Verse 12Not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said to her: The elder shall serve the younger.Verse 13As it is written: Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.Verse 14What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? God forbid.Verse 15For he saith to Moses: I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy; and I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy.Verse 16So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.Verse 17For the scripture saith to Pharao: To this purpose have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.Verse 18Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will; and whom he will, he hardeneth.Verse 19Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? for who resisteth his will?Verse 20O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?Verse 21Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?Verse 22What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction,Verse 23That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he hath prepared unto glory?Verse 24Even us, whom also he hath called, nor only of the Jews, but also of the Gentiles.Verse 25As in Osee he saith: I will call that which was not my people, my people; and her that was not beloved, beloved; and her that had not obtained mercy, one that hath obtained mercy.Verse 26And it shall be, in the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people; there they shall be called the sons of the living God.Verse 27And Isaias crieth out concerning Israel: If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.Verse 28For he shall finish his word, and cut it short in justice; because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth.Verse 29And as Isaias foretold: Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been made as Sodom, and we had been like unto Gomorrha.Verse 30What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who followed not after justice, have attained to justice, even the justice that is of faith.Verse 31But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come unto the law of justice.Verse 32Why so? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were of works. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone.Verse 33As it is written: Behold I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and a rock of scandal; and whosoever believeth in him shall not be confounded.