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Romans 9 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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God’s Chosen People, Israel

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I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:2 - that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:3 - For I could [fn]wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:4 - who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons, and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the temple service and the promises,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:5 - whose are the fathers, and from whom is the [fn]Christ according to the flesh, who is God over all, blessed [fn]forever. Amen.
(Gen 25:19–23 )

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But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:7 - nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s seed, but: “[fn]THROUGH ISAAC YOUR SEED WILL BE NAMED.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:8 - That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are considered as seed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:9 - For this is the word of promise: “AT THIS TIME I WILL COME, AND SARAH SHALL HAVE A SON.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:10 - And not only this, but there was Rebekah also, when she had conceived twins by one man, our father Isaac;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:11 - for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that the purpose of God according to His choice would [fn]stand, not [fn]because of works but [fn]because of Him who calls,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:12 - it was said to her, “THE OLDER SHALL SERVE THE YOUNGER.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:13 - Just as it is written, “JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED.”

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What shall we say then? Is there any unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 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.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:16 - So then it does not depend on the one who wills or the one who runs, but on God who has mercy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:17 - For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “FOR THIS VERY PURPOSE I RAISED YOU UP, IN ORDER TO DEMONSTRATE MY POWER IN YOU, AND IN ORDER THAT MY NAME MIGHT BE PROCLAIMED [fn]THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:18 - So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.

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You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:20 - On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? WILL THE THING MOLDED SAY TO THE MOLDER, “WHY DID YOU MAKE ME LIKE THIS”?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:21 - Or does not the potter have authority over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel [fn]for honorable use and another [fn]for dishonorable use?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:22 - And [fn]what if God, wanting to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath having been prepared for destruction,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:23 - and in order that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory—

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:24 - even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles?

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“I WILL CALL THOSE WHO WERE NOT MY PEOPLE, ‘MY PEOPLE,’

AND HER WHO WAS NOT BELOVED, ‘BELOVED.’”

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“AND IT SHALL BE THAT IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID TO THEM, ‘YOU ARE NOT MY PEOPLE,’

THERE THEY SHALL BE CALLED SONS OF THE LIVING GOD.”

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And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “THOUGH THE NUMBER OF THE SONS OF ISRAEL BE LIKE THE SAND OF THE SEA, IT IS THE REMNANT THAT WILL BE SAVED;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:28 - FOR THE LORD WILL EXECUTE HIS WORD ON THE LAND, [fn]THOROUGHLY AND [fn]QUICKLY.”

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“UNLESS THE LORD OF [fn]SABAOTH HAD LEFT TO US A SEED,

WE WOULD HAVE BECOME LIKE SODOM, AND WOULD HAVE [fn]RESEMBLED GOMORRAH.”

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What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, laid hold of righteousness, even the righteousness which is [fn]by faith;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:31 - but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not attain that law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:32 - Why? Because they did not pursue it [fn]by faith, but as though it were [fn]by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

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“BEHOLD, I AM LAYING IN ZION A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE,

AND THE ONE WHO BELIEVES UPON HIM WILL NOT BE PUT TO SHAME.”

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