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Romans 9 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Paul’s Anguish Over Israel

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:1 - I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit—

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:3 - For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:4 - the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:5 - Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised![fn] Amen.

God’s Sovereign Choice

(Gen 25:19–23 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:6 - It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 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.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:8 - In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:9 - For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:10 - Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 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:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:12 - not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:13 - Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:14 - What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all!

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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.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:16 - It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:17 - For 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.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:18 - Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:19 - One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:20 - But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:21 - Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:22 - What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 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—

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 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,”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:26 - and, “In the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:28 - For the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 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.”[fn]

Israel’s Unbelief

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:30 - What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:31 - but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:32 - Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:33 - As it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.”[fn]
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NIV Footnotes
Or Messiah, who is over all. God be forever praised! Or Messiah. God who is over all be forever praised!
Gen. 21:12
Gen. 18:10,14
Gen. 25:23
Mal. 1:2,3
Exodus 33:19
Exodus 9:16
Isaiah 29:16; 45:9
Hosea 2:23
Hosea 1:10
Isaiah 10:22,23 (see Septuagint)
Isaiah 1:9
Isaiah 8:14; 28:16
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