Romans 9

Whiston^{(i) 1} I say the truth in Christ Jesus, 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 an anathema from Christ, for my brethren and kinsmen who are according to the flesh: ⁴ Who are Israelites; to whom is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenant, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promise; ⁵ Whose [are] the fathers; and of whom as concerning the flesh is Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. ⁶ Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For all that are of Israel, are not Israelites. 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 who 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 at one conception 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? By no means. 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, and whom he will, he hardneth. ¹⁹ Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he therefore find fault? For who hath resisted his will? ²⁰ O man, who art thou that repliest against God? shall the thing formed say to him that formed [it], Why hast thou formed 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 long-suffering 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, who was not beloved. ²⁶ And it shall come to pass, 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 word, and cut [it] short: which word the Lord will make upon the earth. ²⁹ And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrha. ³⁰ What shall we say then? That the Gentiles who follow not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith: ³¹ But Israel, which followed after the law, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. ³² Wherefore? Because it was not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law: They stumbled at that stumbling stone; ³³ As it is written, Behold I lay in Sion a stumbling stone, and rock of scandal, and he that believeth on him, shall not be ashamed.