English Bible Presentation Sharing - Romans Book, chapter 9, verse 18 in Esv Version

Romans 9 : 1 (ESV)

I am speaking the truth in Christ- I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit-

Romans 9 : 2 (ESV)

that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

Romans 9 : 3 (ESV)

For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.

Romans 9 : 4 (ESV)

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.

Romans 9 : 5 (ESV)

To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

Romans 9 : 6 (ESV)

But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,

Romans 9 : 7 (ESV)

and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named."

Romans 9 : 8 (ESV)

This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.

Romans 9 : 9 (ESV)

For this is what the promise said: "About this time next year I will return and Sarah shall have a son."

Romans 9 : 10 (ESV)

And not only so, but also when Rebecca had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac,

Romans 9 : 11 (ESV)

though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad- in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of his call-

Romans 9 : 12 (ESV)

she was told, "The older will serve the younger."

Romans 9 : 13 (ESV)

As it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

Romans 9 : 14 (ESV)

What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means!

Romans 9 : 15 (ESV)

For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."

Romans 9 : 16 (ESV)

So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.

Romans 9 : 17 (ESV)

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."

Romans 9 : 18 (ESV)

So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.

Romans 9 : 19 (ESV)

You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?"

Romans 9 : 20 (ESV)

But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like this?"

Romans 9 : 21 (ESV)

Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honored use and another for dishonorable use?

Romans 9 : 22 (ESV)

What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

Romans 9 : 23 (ESV)

in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory-

Romans 9 : 24 (ESV)

even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?

Romans 9 : 25 (ESV)

As indeed he says in Hosea, "Those who were not my people I will call 'my people,' and her who was not beloved I will call 'beloved.'"

Romans 9 : 26 (ESV)

"And in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' there they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"

Romans 9 : 27 (ESV)

And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved,

Romans 9 : 28 (ESV)

for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay."

Romans 9 : 29 (ESV)

And as Isaiah predicted, "If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring, we would have been like Sodom and become like Gomorrah."

Romans 9 : 30 (ESV)

What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;

Romans 9 : 31 (ESV)

but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law.

Romans 9 : 32 (ESV)

Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,

Romans 9 : 33 (ESV)

as it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame."