English Bible Presentation Sharing - Romans Book, chapter 9, verse 19 in Net Version

Romans 9 : 1 (NET)

I am telling the truth in Christ (I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit�

Romans 9 : 2 (NET)

I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

Romans 9 : 3 (NET)

For I could wish that I myself were accursed� cut off from Christ� for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,

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who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

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To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.

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It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,

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nor are all the children Abraham's true descendants; rather "through Isaac will your descendants be counted."

Romans 9 : 8 (NET)

This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.

Romans 9 : 9 (NET)

For this is what the promise declared: "About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son."

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Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac�

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even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God's purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling)�

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it was said to her, "The older will serve the younger,"

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just as it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

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

Romans 9 : 15 (NET)

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

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

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For the scripture says to Pharaoh: "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may demonstrate my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth."

Romans 9 : 18 (NET)

So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.

Romans 9 : 19 (NET)

You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?"

Romans 9 : 20 (NET)

But who indeed are you� a mere human being� to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder, "Why have you made me like this?"

Romans 9 : 21 (NET)

Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?

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But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

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And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory�

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

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As he also says in Hosea: "I will call those who were not my people, 'My people,' and I will call her who was unloved, 'My beloved.'"

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"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.'"

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And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel, "Though the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved,

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for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth completely and quickly."

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Just as Isaiah predicted, "If the Lord of armies had not left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have resembled Gomorrah."

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What shall we say then?� that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith,

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but Israel even though pursuing a law of righteousness did not attain it.

Romans 9 : 32 (NET)

Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but (as if it were possible) by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

Romans 9 : 33 (NET)

just as it is written, "Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble and a rock that will make them fall, yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame."