Thematic Bible
Romans 9:1 (show verse)
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,
Romans 9:2 (show verse)
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
Romans 9:3 (show verse)
For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Romans 9:4 (show verse)
Who are Israelites; to whom pertains the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
Romans 9:5 (show verse)
Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.
Romans 9:6 (show verse)
Not as though the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel:
Romans 9:7 (show verse)
Neither, because they are the descendants of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall your descendants be called.
Romans 9:8 (show verse)
That is, They who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the descendants.
Romans 9:9 (show verse)
For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
Romans 9:10 (show verse)
And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
Romans 9:11 (show verse)
(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or 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 unto 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 shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
Romans 9:15 (show verse)
For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Romans 9:16 (show verse)
So then 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 unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
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Romans 9:18 (show verse)
Therefore has he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardens.
Romans 9:19 (show verse)
You will say then unto me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will?
Romans 9:20 (show verse)
Nay but, O man, who are you that replies against 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, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?
Romans 9:22 (show verse)
What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
Romans 9:23 (show verse)
And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared unto glory,
Romans 9:24 (show verse)
Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Romans 9:25 (show verse)
As he says also in Hosea, I will call them my people, who were 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 unto them, You are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Romans 9:27 (show verse)
Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
Romans 9:28 (show verse)
For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
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Romans 9:29 (show verse)
And as Isaiah said before, Except the Lord of hosts had left us a descendant, we had been as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrah.
Romans 9:30 (show verse)
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
Romans 9:31 (show verse)
But Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.
Romans 9:32 (show verse)
Why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone;
Romans 9:33 (show verse)
As it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense: and whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.