Thematic Bible




Romans 9:1 (show verse)

I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me testimony in the Holy Spirit,

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 my self to be accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh;

Romans 9:4 (show verse)

who are Israelites, to whom belong the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises;

Romans 9:5 (show verse)

to whom belong the fathers, and of whom is the Christ, as it respects the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

Romans 9:6 (show verse)

It is not possible that the word of God has failed; for they are not all Israel who are of Israel.

Romans 9:7 (show verse)

Nor, because they are the posterity of Abraham, are they all children: but in Isaac shall your posterity be called.

Romans 9:8 (show verse)

That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the posterity.

Romans 9:9 (show verse)

For the word of the promise is this: At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

Romans 9:10 (show verse)

Not only so, but when Rebecca had conceived by one, even our father Isaac,

Romans 9:11 (show verse)

(the children, indeed, having not yet been born, and having done neither good nor evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calls,)

Romans 9:12 (show verse)

it was said to her: The elder shall serve the younger;

Romans 9:13 (show verse)

as it is written: Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

Romans 9:14 (show verse)

What, then, shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with. God? It can not be.

Romans 9:15 (show verse)

For he says to Moses: I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy; and I will show compassion to whom I will show compassion.

Romans 9:16 (show verse)

Therefore, it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy.

Romans 9:17 (show verse)

For the scripture says to Pharaoh: For this very purpose have I raised you up, that I may show in you my power, and that my name may be published in all the earth.
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Romans 9:18 (show verse)

Therefore, he has mercy on whom he wills to have mercy: and whom he wills to harden, he hardens.

Romans 9:19 (show verse)

You will then say to me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will?

Romans 9:20 (show verse)

No, but rather, O man, who are you that dispute with God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed, it, Why have you made me thus?

Romans 9:21 (show verse)

Has not the potter power over the clay, to make from the same mass one vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

Romans 9:22 (show verse)

What, then, if God, intending to show his wrath, and to make his power known, yet, in much long-suffering bore with the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction:

Romans 9:23 (show verse)

and, that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he before prepared for glory, showed mercy to us,

Romans 9:24 (show verse)

whom he has called, not only from among the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?

Romans 9:25 (show verse)

As he says also in Hosea: I will call that my people which is not my people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.

Romans 9:26 (show verse)

And it shall come to pass, that, in the place where it was said to them: You are not my people, there shall they be called the sons of the living God.

Romans 9:27 (show verse)

But Isaiah cries concerning Israel: Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

Romans 9:28 (show verse)

for his word he fulfills, and he decrees in righteousness; for his word that is decreed, will the Lord execute upon the land.
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Romans 9:29 (show verse)

And as Isaiah said before: Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a posterity, we should have been like Sodom, and been made like Gomorrah.

Romans 9:30 (show verse)

What, then, shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not seek after justification, have obtained justification, even the justification which is by faith:

Romans 9:31 (show verse)

but Israel, who sought after a law of justification, has not attained to a law of justification.

Romans 9:32 (show verse)

And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as if by works of law: for they stumbled against that stone of stumbling,

Romans 9:33 (show verse)

as it is written: Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense: and whoever believes on him, shall not be ashamed.