Thematic Bible
Romans 9:1 (show verse)
I am telling the truth in Christ--[I am] not lying; my conscience bears witness to me in the Holy Spirit--
Romans 9:2 (show verse)
that my grief is great and [there is] constant distress in my heart.
Romans 9:3 (show verse)
For I could wish myself to be accursed from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my fellow countrymen 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 [temple] service, and the promises,
Romans 9:5 (show verse)
[to] whom [belong] the patriarchs, and from whom [is] the Christ according to human descent, who is God over all, blessed {forever}! Amen.
Romans 9:6 (show verse)
But [it is] not as if the word of God had failed. For not all those [who are descended] from Israel [are truly] Israel,
Romans 9:7 (show verse)
nor [are they] all children because they are descendants of Abraham, but "In Isaac will your descendants be named."
Romans 9:8 (show verse)
That is, [it is] not the children {by human descent} [who are] children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.
Romans 9:9 (show verse)
For the statement of the promise [is] this: "At this time I will return and {Sarah will have} a son."
Romans 9:10 (show verse)
And not only [this], but also [when] Rebecca conceived children by one [man], Isaac our father--
Romans 9:11 (show verse)
for [although they] had not yet been born, or done anything good or evil, in order that the purpose of God according to election might remain,
Romans 9:12 (show verse)
not by works but by the one who calls--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)
What then shall we say? [There is] no injustice with God, [is there]? May it never be!
Romans 9:15 (show verse)
For to Moses he says, "I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion."
Romans 9:16 (show verse)
Consequently therefore, {it does not depend on the} one who wills or on the one who runs, but on God who shows mercy.
Romans 9:17 (show verse)
For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very [reason] I have raised you up, so that I may demonstrate my power in you, and so that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."
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Romans 9:18 (show verse)
Consequently therefore, he has mercy on whomever he wishes, and he hardens whomever he wishes.
Romans 9:19 (show verse)
Therefore you will say to me, "Why then does he still find fault? For who has resisted his will?
Romans 9:20 (show verse)
On the contrary, O man, who are you who answers back to God? Will what is molded say to the one who molded [it], "Why did you make me like this"?
Romans 9:21 (show verse)
Or does the potter not have authority over the clay, to make from the same lump a vessel that [is] for {honorable use} and [one] that [is] for {ordinary use}?
Romans 9:22 (show verse)
And [what] if God, wanting to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?
Romans 9:23 (show verse)
And [he did so] in order that he could make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy that he prepared beforehand for glory,
Romans 9:24 (show verse)
us whom 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 those [who were] not my people, 'My people,' and those [who were] not loved, 'Loved.'
Romans 9:26 (show verse)
And it will be in the place where it was said to them, 'You [are] not my people,' there they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"
Romans 9:27 (show verse)
And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, "[Even] if the number of the sons of Israel is like the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved,
Romans 9:28 (show verse)
{for the Lord will execute his sentence thoroughly and decisively} upon the earth."
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Romans 9:29 (show verse)
And just as Isaiah foretold, "If the Lord of hosts had not left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom and would have resembled Gomorrah."
Romans 9:30 (show verse)
What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness--even the righteousness [that is] by faith.
Romans 9:31 (show verse)
But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, did not attain to the law.
Romans 9:32 (show verse)
Why that? Because [they did] not [pursue it] by faith, but as [if] by works. They stumbled over the {stone that causes people to stumble},
Romans 9:33 (show verse)
just as it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion {a stone that causes people to stumble}, and {a rock that causes them to fall}, and the one who believes in him will not be put to shame."