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          DASV: Romans 9    

1 I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience
confirms it in the Holy Spirit,
2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart.
3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for
the sake of my people, my kindred according to the flesh,
4 who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption, the glory,
the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship,
and the promises.
5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from whom Christ came
according to the flesh, who is God over all, blessed forever.
Amen.
6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not
all descended from Israel truly belong to Israel,
7 and not all of Abraham's descendants are his true descendants.
Rather "in Isaac your descendants will be called."
8 That means that it is not the children of the flesh that are
children of God; but the children of the promise are counted
as descendants.
9 For this is the word of promise, "In about a year I will
return and Sarah will have a son."
10 And not only that, but Rebecca also having conceived by one
man, our forefather Isaac --
11 for even before they were born and had done anything good
or bad, so that the purpose of God in election might stand,
not by works, but by him who calls,
12 it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."
13 Just as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."
14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God?
Certainly not.
15 For he said to Moses,
      "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
           and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
16 So then it does not depend on human will or exertion,
but on God who has mercy.
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose
I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you,
and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."
18 So then he has mercy on whomever he wants to, and he
hardens whomever he wants to.
19 You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault?
For who is able to resist his will?
20 But who do you think you are, O man, who talks back to
God? Does the thing that is molded say to him who shaped it,
"Why did you make me like this?"
21 Or does the potter not have a right over the clay, from
the same lump to make one object for a special use, and
another for dishonorable use?
22 What if God, wanting to show his wrath, and to make his
power known, has endured with much patience objects of
wrath made for destruction?
23 What if he did it to make known the riches of his glory
on the objects of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand
for glory--
24 even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews,
but also from the Gentiles?
25 As he also says in Hosea,
      "I will call those who were not my people, 'my people,'
           and her who was not loved, 'beloved.'"
26 "And in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,'
      there they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"
27 Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel,
      "If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea,
           only a remnant will be saved,
28 for the Lord will execute his sentence upon the earth,
      totally and quickly."
29 Just as Isaiah predicted,
      "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us descendants,
           we would have become like Sodom,
           and been made like Gomorrah."
30 What shall we say then? Gentiles, who did not pursue
righteousness, attained it, that is, the righteousness
that comes by faith.
31 but Israel, pursuing a righteousness based on law,
did not achieve it.
32 Why not? Because they did not pursue it by faith,
but as if it were based on works. They stumbled over
the stumbling stone,
33 just as it is written,
"See, I lay in Zion a stone that will make people stumble
and a rock that makes them fall,
and the one who believes in him will not be put to shame."

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