Thematic Bible
Romans 9:1 (show verse)
I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience is testifying to me with the Holy Spirit—
Romans 9:2 (show verse)
that I have intense sorrow and continual anguish in my heart.
Romans 9:3 (show verse)
For I could almost wish to be cursed and cut off from the Messiah for the benefit of my brothers, my own flesh and blood.
Romans 9:4 (show verse)
They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple service, and the promises.
Romans 9:5 (show verse)
The ancestors are theirs, and from them, by physical descent, came the Messiah, who is God over all, praised forever. Amen.
Romans 9:6 (show verse)
But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
Romans 9:7 (show verse)
Neither are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants. On the contrary, your offspring will be traced through Isaac.
Romans 9:8 (show verse)
That is, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but the children of the promise are considered to be the offspring.
Romans 9:9 (show verse)
For this is the statement of the promise: At this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.
Romans 9:10 (show verse)
And not only that, but also Rebekah received a promise when she became pregnant by one man, our ancestor Isaac.
Romans 9:11 (show verse)
For though her sons had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand—
Romans 9:12 (show verse)
not from works but from the One who calls—she was told: The older will serve the younger.
Romans 9:13 (show verse)
As it is written: I have loved Jacob, but I have hated Esau.
Romans 9:14 (show verse)
What should we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!
Romans 9:15 (show verse)
For He tells Moses:
I will show mercy
to whom I will show mercy,
and I will have compassion
on whom I will have compassion.
to whom I will show mercy,
and I will have compassion
on whom I will have compassion.
Romans 9:16 (show verse)
So then it does not depend on human will or effort but on God who shows mercy.
Romans 9:17 (show verse)
For the Scripture tells Pharaoh:
I raised you up for this reason
so that I may display My power in you
and that My name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
so that I may display My power in you
and that My name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
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Romans 9:18 (show verse)
So then, He shows mercy to those He wants to, and He hardens those He wants to harden.
Romans 9:19 (show verse)
You will say to me, therefore, “Why then does He still find fault? For who can resist His will?”
Romans 9:20 (show verse)
But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
Romans 9:21 (show verse)
Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?
Romans 9:22 (show verse)
And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath ready for destruction?
Romans 9:23 (show verse)
And what if He did this to make known the riches of His glory on objects of mercy that He prepared beforehand for glory—
Romans 9:24 (show verse)
on us, the ones He also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
Romans 9:25 (show verse)
As He also says in Hosea:
I will call Not My People, My People,
and she who is Unloved, Beloved.
and she who is Unloved, Beloved.
Romans 9:26 (show verse)
you are not My people,
there they will be called sons of the living God.
Romans 9:27 (show verse)
But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:
Though the number of Israel’s sons
is like the sand of the sea,
only the remnant will be saved;
is like the sand of the sea,
only the remnant will be saved;
Romans 9:28 (show verse)
completely and decisively on the earth.
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Romans 9:29 (show verse)
And just as Isaiah predicted:
If the Lord of Hosts had not left us offspring,
we would have become like Sodom,
and we would have been made like Gomorrah.
we would have become like Sodom,
and we would have been made like Gomorrah.
Romans 9:30 (show verse)
What should we say then? Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained righteousness—namely the righteousness that comes from faith.
Romans 9:31 (show verse)
But Israel, pursuing the law for righteousness, has not achieved the righteousness of the law.
Romans 9:32 (show verse)
Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.
Romans 9:33 (show verse)
As it is written:
Look! I am putting a stone in Zion to stumble over
and a rock to trip over,
yet the one who believes on Him
will not be put to shame.
and a rock to trip over,
yet the one who believes on Him
will not be put to shame.