Thematic Bible
Romans 9:1 (show verse)
Romans 9:2 (show verse)
that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart.
Romans 9:3 (show verse)
For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,
Romans 9:4 (show verse)
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,
Romans 9:5 (show verse)
whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.
Romans 9:6 (show verse)
But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel;
Romans 9:7 (show verse)
nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants, but: “through Isaac your descendants will be named.”
Romans 9:8 (show verse)
That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants.
Romans 9:9 (show verse)
For this is the word of promise: “At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.”
Romans 9:10 (show verse)
Romans 9:11 (show verse)
for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls,
Romans 9:12 (show verse)
it was said to her, “The older will serve the younger.”
Romans 9:13 (show verse)
Just as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
Romans 9:14 (show verse)
Romans 9:15 (show verse)
For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
Romans 9:16 (show verse)
So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.
Romans 9:17 (show verse)
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I raised you up, to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed throughout the whole earth.”
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Romans 9:18 (show verse)
So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.
Romans 9:19 (show verse)
Romans 9:20 (show verse)
On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it?
Romans 9:21 (show verse)
Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?
Romans 9:22 (show verse)
Romans 9:23 (show verse)
And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,
Romans 9:24 (show verse)
even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles.
Romans 9:25 (show verse)
As He says also in Hosea,
“I will call those who were not My people, ‘My people,’
And her who was not beloved, ‘beloved.’”
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And her who was not beloved, ‘beloved.’”
Romans 9:26 (show verse)
There they shall be called sons of
Romans 9:27 (show verse)
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;
Romans 9:28 (show verse)
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Romans 9:29 (show verse)
And just as Isaiah foretold,
“Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left to us a posterity,
We would have become like Sodom, and would have resembled Gomorrah.”
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Romans 9:30 (show verse)
Romans 9:31 (show verse)
but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.
Romans 9:32 (show verse)
Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
Romans 9:33 (show verse)
just as it is written,
“Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,
And he who believes in Him will not be disappointed.”
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