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# Romans 9 (New King James Version)
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Israel's Rejection of Christ
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##### Chapter 9
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###### 1 I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,
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###### 2 that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart.
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###### 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh,
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###### 4 who are Israelites, to whom _pertain_ the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service _of God,_ and the promises;
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###### 5 of whom _are_ the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ _came,_ who is over all, _the_ eternally blessed God. Amen.Israel's Rejection and God's Purpose
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###### 6 But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they _are_ not all Israel who _are_ of Israel,
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###### 7 nor _are they_ all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, "In Isaac your seed shall be called."
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###### 8 That is, those who _are_ the children of the flesh, these _are_ not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed.
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###### 9 For this _is_ the word of promise: "At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son."
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###### 10 And not only _this,_ but when Rebecca also had conceived by one man, _even_ by our father Isaac
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###### 11 (for _the children_ not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls),
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###### 12 it was said to her, "The older shall serve the younger."
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###### 13 As it is written, "Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated."Israel's Rejection and God's Justice
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###### 14 What shall we say then? _Is there_ unrighteousness with God? Certainly not!
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###### 15 For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion."
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###### 16 So then _it is_ not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
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###### 17 For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth."
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###### 18 Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.
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###### 19 You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?"
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###### 20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed _it_, "Why have you made me like this?"
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###### 21 Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
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###### 22 _What_ if God, wanting to show _His_ wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
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###### 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,
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###### 24 even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
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###### 25 As He says also in Hosea:
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"I will call them My people, who were not My people,
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And her beloved, who was not beloved."
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###### 26 "And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them,
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'You _are_ not My people,'
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There they shall be called sons of the living God."
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###### 27 Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel:
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"Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea,
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The remnant will be saved.
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###### 28 For He will finish the work and cut _it_ short in righteousness,
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Because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth."
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###### 29 And as Isaiah said before:
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"Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed,
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We would have become like Sodom,
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And we would have been made like Gomorrah."Present Condition of Israel
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###### 30 What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith;
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###### 31 but Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.
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###### 32 Why? Because _they did_ not _seek it_ by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone.
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###### 33 As it is written:
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"Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense,
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And whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame."
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