Thematic Bible
Romans 9:1 (show verse)
I say the truth in Christ, I lye not, (my conscience bearing me witness in the holy Ghost,)
Romans 9:2 (show verse)
that I have great grief and continual sorrow in my heart:
Romans 9:3 (show verse)
for I could wish that I myself were made a curse after the manner of Christ, for my brethren, my kindred according to the flesh;
Romans 9:4 (show verse)
who are Israelites, whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the form of divine worship, and the promises:
Romans 9:5 (show verse)
whose are the fathers, and of whom, as to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all God blessed for ever. Amen.
Romans 9:6 (show verse)
Not that the word of God hath failed. For they are not all Israel, who are descended from Israel.
Romans 9:7 (show verse)
Nor because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children of promise: but "in Isaac shall thy seed be called."
Romans 9:8 (show verse)
That is, not the children of the flesh are the children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted for the seed.
Romans 9:9 (show verse)
For this is the word of the promise, "According to this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son:"
Romans 9:10 (show verse)
and not to her only; but Rebecca also being with child by our father Isaac,
Romans 9:11 (show verse)
(when the children were not yet born, nor had done either good or evil, that the purpose of God according to his choice might abide, not on account of works, but of Him that calleth,) it was said to her, the elder shall serve the younger:
Romans 9:12 (show verse)
as it is written,
Romans 9:13 (show verse)
"I loved Jacob and I hated Esau."
Romans 9:14 (show verse)
What shall we say then? Is there injustice in God?
Romans 9:15 (show verse)
God forbid! For He saith 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 willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
Romans 9:17 (show verse)
And the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, for this very purpose have I raised thee up, that I may shew forth my power in thee, and that my name may be declared through all the earth.
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Romans 9:18 (show verse)
So then He hath mercy on whom He pleaseth, and whom He will, He hardeneth.
Romans 9:19 (show verse)
Thou wilt say then, Why doth he yet blame us? who hath resisted his will?
Romans 9:20 (show verse)
Nay but, O man, who art thou, that disputest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?
Romans 9:21 (show verse)
Hath not the potter power over the clay, out of the same mass to make one vessel to honor and another to dishonor?
Romans 9:22 (show verse)
And what if God, though resolved to shew his displeasure at last, and to make known his power, yet bore with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction?
Romans 9:23 (show verse)
and that He might make known the riches of his glory in the vessels of mercy, which He hath prepared for glory?
Romans 9:24 (show verse)
whom He hath also called, even us, not only of the Jews, but also of the Gentiles.
Romans 9:25 (show verse)
As He saith 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 in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Romans 9:27 (show verse)
And Esaias crieth out concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant shall be saved.
Romans 9:28 (show verse)
For in finishing the account and cutting it short in righteousness, the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.
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Romans 9:29 (show verse)
And as Esaias said before, "Except the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and we had been made like unto Gomorrah."
Romans 9:30 (show verse)
What shall we say then? that the Gentiles, who sought not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith;
Romans 9:31 (show verse)
but Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness: why?
Romans 9:32 (show verse)
because they sought it not by faith, but 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 Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence:" and again, "Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed."