Book 45 : ROMANS - Chapter 009
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That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart
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For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my
brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh
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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
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Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh
Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen
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Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they
are not all Israel, which are of Israel
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Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all
children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called
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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
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For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and
Sarah shall have a son
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And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one,
even by our father Isaac
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(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;
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It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger
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As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated
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What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God
forbid
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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
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So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that
runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy
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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
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Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom
he will he hardeneth
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Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For
who hath resisted his will
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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
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Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to
make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour
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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
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And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the
vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory
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Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also
of the Gentiles
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As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which
were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved
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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
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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
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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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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
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What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not
after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the
righteousness which is of faith
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But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness,
hath not attained to the law of righteousness
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Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were
by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that
stumblingstone
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As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and
rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be
ashamed
Book 45 : ROMANS - Chapter 009
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