Romans

9 Truth say I in Christ, I utter no falsehood,—My conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit—

2 That I have great grief and incessant travail in my heart;

3 For I could have wished to be accursed even I myself from the Christ In behalf of my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh;—

4 Who indeed are Israelites, Whose are the sonship and the glory and the covenants and the legislation and the divine service and the promises,

5 Whose are the fathers, And of whom is the Christ—according to the flesh—He who is over all, God, blessed unto the ages. Amen.

6 It is not however as though the word of God had failed; For not all they who are of Israel the same are Israel,

7 Neither because they are seed of Abraham are all children,—But In Isaac shall there be called unto thee a seed.

8 That is—Not the children of the flesh the same are children of God; But the children of the promise are reckoned as a seed.

9 For of promise is this word—According to this season will I come, And Sarah shall have a son.

10 And not only so But when Rebekah also was with child of one—Isaac our father,—

11 They in fact not being yet born nor having practised anything good or bad,—In order that the purpose of God by way of election might stand,—Not by works But by him that was calling

12 It was said unto her—The elder shall serve the younger;

13 Even as it is written—Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated.

14 What then shall we say? Is there injustice with God? Far be it!

15 For unto Moses he saith—I will have mercy upon whomsoever I can have mercy, And I will have compassion upon whomsoever I can have compassion.

16 Hence then it is not of him that wisheth nor of him that runneth, But of the mercy-shewing God.

17 For the Scripture saith unto Pharaoh—Unto this end have I raised thee up, That I may thus shew in thee my power And that I may declare my name in all the earth.

18 Hence then—On whom he pleaseth he hath mercy, And whom he pleaseth he doth harden.

19 Thou wilt say to me then—Why longer findeth he fault? For his purpose who hath withstood?

20 O man! Who nevertheless art thou that art answering again unto God? Shall the thing formed say unto him that formed it—Why didst thou make me thus?

21 Or hath not the potter a right over the clay—Out of the same lump To make some indeed into a vessel for honour, And some for dishonour?

22 And if God—Wishing to shew his anger and to make known his power—Bare in much patience with vessels of anger already fitted for destruction,

23 In order that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy which he prepared beforehand for glory,—

24 Whom he also called even us Not only from among Jews But also from among the nations [What then?]

25 As also in Hosea he saith—I will call the Not-my-people My people, And the Not-beloved Beloved,

26 And it shall be—In the place where it was said [to them]—Not my people are ye! There shall they be called—Sons of a Living God.

27 Isaiah moreover exclaimeth over Israel—Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea The remnant shall be saved;

28 For a complete and concise account will the Lord make upon the earth.

29 And even as Isaiah hath before said—If the Lord of hosts had not left us a seed As Sodom had we become And as Gomorrha had we been made like.

30 What then shall we say? That they of the nations Who were not in pursuit of righteousness Have laid hold of righteousness,—A righteousness however which is by faith;

31 Whereas Israel Though in pursuit of a law of righteousness Unto a law have not attained.

32 Wherefore? Because not by faith But as by works [have they sought it]: They have stumbled at the stone of stumbling,

33 Even as it is written—Lo! I lay in Zion, A stone to strike against And a rock to stumble over, And he that resteth faith thereupon shall not be put to shame.