English Bible Presentation Sharing - Romans Book, chapter 9, verse 6 in Hcsb Version

Romans 9 : 1 (HCSB)

I speak the truth in Christ-- I am not lying; my conscience is testifying to me with the Holy Spirit--

Romans 9 : 2 (HCSB)

that I have intense sorrow and continual anguish in my heart.

Romans 9 : 3 (HCSB)

For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from the Messiah for the benefit of my brothers, my countrymen by physical descent.

Romans 9 : 4 (HCSB)

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

Romans 9 : 5 (HCSB)

The forefathers are theirs, and from them, by physical descent, came the Messiah, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

Romans 9 : 6 (HCSB)

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

Romans 9 : 7 (HCSB)

Neither are they all children because they are Abraham's descendants. On the contrary, in Isaac your seed will be called.

Romans 9 : 8 (HCSB)

That is, it is not the children by physical descent who are God's children, but the children of the promise are considered seed.

Romans 9 : 9 (HCSB)

For this is the statement of the promise: At this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.

Romans 9 : 10 (HCSB)

And not only that, but also when Rebekah became pregnant by Isaac our forefather

Romans 9 : 11 (HCSB)

(for though they had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God's purpose according to election might stand,

Romans 9 : 12 (HCSB)

not from works but from the One who calls) she was told: The older will serve the younger.

Romans 9 : 13 (HCSB)

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

Romans 9 : 14 (HCSB)

What should we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!

Romans 9 : 15 (HCSB)

For He tells Moses: I will show mercy to whom I show mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.

Romans 9 : 16 (HCSB)

So then it does not depend on human will or effort, but on God who shows mercy.

Romans 9 : 17 (HCSB)

For the Scripture tells Pharaoh: For this reason I raised you up: so that I may display My power in you, and that My name may be proclaimed in all the earth.

Romans 9 : 18 (HCSB)

So then, He shows mercy to whom He wills, and He hardens whom He wills.

Romans 9 : 19 (HCSB)

You will say to me, therefore, "Why then does He still find fault? For who can resist His will?"

Romans 9 : 20 (HCSB)

But who are you-- anyone who talks back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

Romans 9 : 21 (HCSB)

Or has the potter no right over His clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?

Romans 9 : 22 (HCSB)

And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath ready for destruction?

Romans 9 : 23 (HCSB)

And *what if He did this to make known the riches of His glory on objects of mercy that He prepared beforehand for glory--

Romans 9 : 24 (HCSB)

on us whom He also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

Romans 9 : 25 (HCSB)

As He also says in Hosea: I will call "Not-My-People," "My-People," and she who is "Unloved," "Beloved."

Romans 9 : 26 (HCSB)

And it will be in the place where they were told, you are not My people, there they will be called sons of the living God.

Romans 9 : 27 (HCSB)

But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: Though the number of Israel's sons is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved;

Romans 9 : 28 (HCSB)

for the Lord will execute His sentence completely and decisively on the earth.

Romans 9 : 29 (HCSB)

And just as Isaiah predicted: If the Lord of Hosts had not left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made like Gomorrah.

Romans 9 : 30 (HCSB)

What should we say then? Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained righteousness-- namely the righteousness that comes from faith.

Romans 9 : 31 (HCSB)

But Israel, pursuing the law for righteousness, has not achieved the law.

Romans 9 : 32 (HCSB)

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

Romans 9 : 33 (HCSB)

As it is written: Look! I am putting a stone in Zion to stumble over, and a rock to trip over, yet the one who believes on Him will not be put to shame.