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{Romans 9:1} I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:2} That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:3} For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:4} Who are Israelites; to whom [pertaineth] 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} Whose [are] the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ [came,] who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:6} Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they [are] not all Israel, which are of Israel: ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:7} Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, [are they] all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:8} That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:9} For this [is] the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:10} And not only [this;] but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, [even] by our father Isaac; ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:11} (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 calleth;) ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:12} It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:13} As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:14} What shall we say then? [Is there] unrighteousness with God? God forbid. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:15} 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} So then [it is] not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:17} For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:18} Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will [have mercy,] and whom he will he hardeneth. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:19} Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:20} Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed [it,] Why hast thou made me thus? ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:21} Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:22} [What] if God, willing to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:23} And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:24} Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:25} As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:26} And it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye [are] not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:27} Esaias also crieth 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} For he will finish the work, and cut [it] short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:29} And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:30} What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:31} But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:32} Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Romans 9:33} As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

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