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1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my con­science also bear­ing me wit­ness in the Holy Ghost, 2 That I have great heav­i­ness and con­tin­u­al sor­row in my heart. 3 For I could wish that my­self were ac­cursed from Christ for my brethren, my kins­men ac­cord­ing to the flesh: 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; 5 Whose are the fa­thers, and of whom as con­cern­ing the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ev­er. Amen. 6 Not as though the word of God hath tak­en none ef­fect. For they are not all Is­rael, which are of Is­rael: 7 Nei­ther, be­cause they are the seed of Abra­ham, are they all chil­dren: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. 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. 9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son. 10 And not only this; but when Re­bec­ca also had con­ceived by one, even by our fa­ther Isaac; 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;) 12 It was said unto her, The el­der shall serve the younger. 13 As it is writ­ten, Ja­cob have I loved, but Esau have I hat­ed. 14 What shall we say then? Is there un­righ­teous­ness with God? God for­bid. 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. 16 So then it is not of him that wil­leth, nor of him that run­neth, but of God that sheweth mer­cy. 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. 18 There­fore hath he mer­cy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hard­eneth. 19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath re­sist­ed his will? 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? 21 Hath not the pot­ter pow­er over the clay, of the same lump to make one ves­sel unto hon­our, and an­oth­er unto dis­hon­our? 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: 23 And that he might make known the rich­es of his glo­ry on the ves­sels of mer­cy, which he had afore pre­pared unto glo­ry, 24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews on­ly, but also of the Gen­tiles? 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. 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. 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: 28 For he will fin­ish the work, and cut it short in righ­teous­ness: be­cause a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. 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. 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. 31 But Is­rael, which fol­lowed af­ter the law of righ­teous­ness, hath not at­tained to the law of righ­teous­ness. 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; 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.