Romans 9-10

Romans 9

¹I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

²that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart,

³for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh;

⁴who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the service, and the promises;

⁵whose are the fathers; and of whom, as according to flesh, is the Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

⁶Not however as though the word of God had failed; for not all are Israel which are of Israel;

⁷nor because they are seed of Abraham are all children: but, In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee.

⁸That is, they that are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed.

⁹For this word is of promise, According to this time I will come, and there shall be a son to Sarah.

¹⁰And not only that, but Rebecca having conceived by one, Isaac our father,

¹¹the children indeed being not yet born, or having done anything good or worthless (that the purpose of God according to election might abide, not of works, but of him that calls),

¹²it was said to her, The greater shall serve the less:

¹³according as it is written, I have loved Jacob, and I have hated Esau.

¹⁴What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Far be the thought.

¹⁵For he says to Moses, I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy, and I will feel compassion for whom I will feel compassion.

¹⁶So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shews mercy.

¹⁷For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very thing I have raised thee up from amongst men, that I might thus shew in thee my power, and so that my name should be declared in all the earth.

¹⁸So then, to whom he will he shews mercy, and whom he will he hardens.

¹⁹Thou wilt say to me then, Why does he yet find fault? for who resists his purpose?

²⁰Aye, but thou, O man, who art *thou* that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

²¹Or has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour?

²²And if God, minded to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction;

²³and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,

²⁴us, whom he has also called, not only from amongst the Jews, but also from amongst the nations?

²⁵As he says also in Hosea, I will call not-my-people My people; and the-not-beloved Beloved.

²⁶And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, *Ye* are not my people, there shall they be called Sons of the living God.

²⁷But Esaias cries concerning Israel, Should the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved:

²⁸for he is bringing the matter to an end, and cutting [it short in righteousness; because] a cutting short of the matter will the Lord accomplish upon the earth.

²⁹And according as Esaias said before, Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and made like even as Gomorrha.

³⁰What then shall we say? That they of the nations, who did not follow after righteousness, have attained righteousness, but the righteousness that is on the principle of faith.

³¹But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to that law.

³²Wherefore? Because it was not on the principle of faith, but as of works. They have stumbled at the stumblingstone,

³³according as it is written, Behold, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence: and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.

Romans 10

¹Brethren, the delight of my own heart and my supplication which I address to God for them is for salvation.

²For I bear them witness that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

³For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

⁴For Christ is the end of law for righteousness to every one that believes.

⁵For Moses lays down in writing the righteousness which is of the law, The man who has practised those things shall live by them.

⁶But the righteousness of faith speaks thus: Do not say in thine heart, Who shall ascend to the heavens? that is, to bring Christ down;

⁷or, Who shall descend into the abyss? that is, to bring up Christ from among the dead.

⁸But what says it? The word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

⁹that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from among the dead, thou shalt be saved.

¹⁰For with the heart is believed to righteousness; and with the mouth confession made to salvation.

¹¹For the scripture says, No one believing on him shall be ashamed.

¹²For there is no difference of Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all is rich towards all that call upon him.

¹³For every one whosoever, who shall call on the name of the Lord, shall be saved.

¹⁴How then shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without one who preaches?

¹⁵and how shall they preach unless they have been sent? according as it is written, How beautiful the feet of them that announce glad tidings of peace, of them that announce glad tidings of good things!

¹⁶But they have not all obeyed the glad tidings. For Esaias says, Lord, who has believed our report?

¹⁷So faith then is by a report, but the report by God's word.

¹⁸But I say, Have they not heard? Yea, surely, Their voice has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the extremities of the habitable world.

¹⁹But I say, Has not Israel known? First, Moses says, *I* will provoke you to jealousy through them that are not a nation: through a nation without understanding I will anger you.

²⁰But Esaias is very bold, and says, I have been found by those not seeking me; I have become manifest to those not inquiring after me.

²¹But unto Israel he says, All the day long I have stretched out my hands unto a people disobeying and opposing.